词汇 | understand-to-mean |
释义 | understand someone/something to mean somethingphrase to think, especially wrongly, that someone means or something is about a particular thing: When he said three o'clock, I understood him to mean in the afternoon.他说3点钟时,我误解为是下午。 I agree that she was unkind, which is what I understood you to mean. She talked about food from a cow, and by that I understood her to mean beef, not milk. When he talked about his house, I understood him to mean the one in London. She talks about her religious life, by which I understand her to mean her ideas about reincarnation, not her Judaism. The book was advertised as being about the war, which I understood to mean the Second World War, not the First World War. See also understand(KNOW) |
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