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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had now made a good progress in understanding and speaking the language.
-- In choosing persons for all employments, they have more regard to good morals than to great abilities; for, since government is necessary to mankind, they believe, that the common size of human understanding is fitted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but they sup-pose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to be in every man's power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by ex-perience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study is required.
-- I walked about on the table as the girl commanded; she asked me questions, as far as she knew my understanding of the language reached, and I answered them as loud as I could.
-- 'That, if it had been my good fortune to come into the world a struldbrug, as soon as I could discover my own hap-piness, by understanding the difference between life and death, I would first resolve, by all arts and methods, what-soever, to procure myself riches.
-- I durst make no return to this malicious insinuation, which debased human understanding below the sagacity of a common hound, who has judgment enough to distinguish and follow the cry of the ablest dog in the pack, without be-ing ever mistaken.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, you see,' replied Mr. Bounderby, 'it suits my disposition to have a full understanding with a man, particularly with a public man, when I make his acquaintance.
-- 'Or, between himself, and I may trust to your perfect understanding of my meaning, I am sure and his highly esteemed brother-in-law.'
-- Louisa had sat by her for some minutes, and had spoken to her often, before she arrived at a clear understanding who it was.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may readily be conceived, then, that an understanding was soon come to between them.
-- Now, the understanding was, that he was to take us to the village of Stapi, situated on the southern slope of the peninsula of Sneffels, at the very foot of the volcano.
-- But it is necessary to the complete understanding of what follows.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It merely went to the effect that as they had all been thrown together by chance, and had all preserved a good understanding together, and were now about to disperse, and were not likely ever to find themselves all together again, what could they do better than bid farewell to one another, and give one another good-speed in a simultaneous glass of cool champagne all round the table?
-- The Patriarch, apparently not yet understanding his own part in the drama under representation, glowed with vacant serenity.
-- As if there were a secret understanding between herself and Clennam of the most thrilling nature; as if the first of a train of post-chaises and four, extending all the way to Scotland, were at that moment round the corner; and as if she couldn't (and wouldn't) have walked into the Parish Church with him, under the shade of the family umbrella, with the Patriarchal blessing on her head, and the perfect concurrence of all mankind; Flora comforted her soul with agonies of mysterious signalling, expressing dread of discovery.
-- Perhaps this had originally been the mainspring of the understanding between them.
-- Finally, after some high words and high spirit on the part of your sister, we came to the complete understanding that there was no danger; and your sister was so obliging as to allow me to present her with a mark or two of my appreciation at my dressmaker's.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps Meg felt, without understanding why, that they were not particularly cultivated or intelligent peo-ple, and that all their gilding could not quite conceal the ordinary material of which they were made.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On one side hung a very large oilpainting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the unequal crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose.
-- Ere that come to pass; ere the Pequod's weedy hull rolls side by side with the barnacled hulls of the leviathan; at the outset it is but well to attend to a matter almost indispensable to a thorough appreciative understanding of the more special leviathanic revelations and allusions of all sorts which are to follow.
-- With reference to the whaling scene shortly to be described, as well as for the better understanding of all similar scenes elsewhere presented, I have here to speak of the magical, sometimes horrible whale-line.
-- But even Solomon, he says, "the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain" (i.e., even while living) "in the congregation of the dead."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He bent over Oliver, and repeated the inquiry; but finding him really incapable of understanding the question; and knowing that his not replying would only infuriate the magistrate the more, and add to the severity of his sentence; he hazarded a guess.
-- The Jew, perfectly understanding the hint, retired to fill it: previously exchanging a remarkable look with Fagin, who raised his eyes for an instant, as if in expectation of it, and shook his head in reply; so slightly that the action would have been almost imperceptible to an observant third person.
-- Being assisted by the doctor, he managed to sit up in bed for a minute or so; and looked at the strangers without at all understanding what was going forward--in fact, without seeming to recollect where he was, or what had been passing.
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