understanding是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 理解， 理解力； 谅解a. 了解的， 通情达理的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a comfortable home for her, and Emma imagined a very suf-ficient income; for though the vicarage of Highbury was not large, he was known to have some independent property; and she thought very highly of him as a good-humoured, well-meaning, respectable young man, without any defi-ciency of useful understanding or knowledge of the world.
-- She is not a 76 Emmaclever girl, but she has better sense than you are aware of, and does not deserve to have her understanding spoken of so slightingly.
-- She was not a woman of strong understanding or any quickness; and with this resemblance of her father, she inherited also much of his constitution; was delicate in her own health, over-careful of that of her children, had many fears and many nerves, and was as fond of her own Mr. Wingfield in town as her father could be of Mr. Perry.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Luckily for her present, unluckily for her future tranquillity, her understanding had not yet told her what Boldwood was.
-- Had she felt, which she did not, any wish whatever for the married state in the abstract, she could not reasonably have rejected him, being a woman who frequently appealed to her understanding for deliverance from her whims.
-- Bathsheba, though she had too much understanding to be entirely governed by her womanliness, had too much womanliness to use her understanding to the best advantage.
-- Unless, indeed, you'll promise to have an understanding man as bailiff, or manager, or something.
-- 'A's rather a curious item, but a very understanding shepherd, and learned in books."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taillefer was tired of the annual application made by his daughter and her elderly friend; he gave them a personal interview in order to arrive at an understanding with them.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not pretend to enter into the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards the opin-ions of the hero, whose extinction I wept, without precisely understanding it.
-- Many things I read surpassed my understanding and expe-rience.
-- Besides, I found that my understanding improved so much with ev-ery day's experience that I was unwilling to commence this undertaking until a few more months should have added to my sagacity.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But here I'm going to stand till I'm understanding you.
-- You'd be happier if he did, for at least you'd be understanding that.
-- But he's queer in other ways,and there's no understanding him at all.
-- Even with Honey, with whom he had an unspoken understanding of marriage when he came into his property nextfall, he was diffident and silent.
-- Sometimes, there was no understanding Ashley.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And your sister," he resumed, after a little steady eating, "which had the honor of bringing you up by hand!It's a sad picter, to reflect that she's no longer equal to fully understanding the honor.
-- And now, Handel," said he, finally throwing off the story as it were, "there is a perfectly open understanding between us.
-- Their keeper had a brace of pistols, and carried a thick-knobbed bludgeon under his arm; but he was on terms of good understanding with them, and stood with them beside him, looking on at the putting-to of the horses, rather with an air as if the convicts were an interesting Exhibition not formally open at the moment, and he the Curator.
-- Am I right in so understanding what you have told me, as that he never referred to her, directly or indirectly, in any way?
-- Little, if any, community of feeling subsisted between them and Estella, but the understanding was established that they were necessary to her, and that she was necessary to them.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Come,' said Hans, 'more understanding than that is not needed for my household, as you are such a clever Elsie, I will have you,' and seized her hand, took her upstairs with him, and married her.
-- Eating the snake had given him power of understanding the language of animals.
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