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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They meet, they write, there is a complete understanding between them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she recognized his love, on the understanding that she bound herself to nothing whatever, and that she reserved the right to say 'no' up to the very hour of the marriage ceremony.
-- Possibly he counted on Gania's - complaisance; for Totski had long suspected that there existed some secret understanding between the general and his secretary.
-- Since, in the last conscious moment preceding the attack, he could say to himself, with full understanding of his words: 'I would give my whole life for this one instant,' then doubtless to him it really was worth a lifetime.
-- But though my town business is, of course, most pressing, still I determined not to go away until I had seen you, and had a clear understanding with you upon certain points; and that without loss of time.
-- At that time he had been pretty nearly an idiot still; he could not speak properly, and had difficulty in understanding when others spoke to him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have set my heart on keep-ing her in my own house, for I love her better even than my own wife Clytemnestra, whose peer she is alike in form and feature, in understanding and accomplishments.
-- Heaven has made one man an excellent soldier; of another it has made a dancer or a singer and player on the lyre; while yet in another Jove has implanted a wise understanding of which men reap fruit to the saving of many, and he himself knows more about it than any one; therefore I will say what I think will be best.
-- Neverthe-less Hector only killed Periphetes of Mycenae; he was son of Copreus who was wont to take the orders of King Eurys-theus to mighty Hercules, but the son was a far better man than the father in every way; he was fleet of foot, a valiant warrior, and in understanding ranked among the foremost men of Mycenae.
-- I have held you so far as a man of more understanding than any in all Lycia, but now I despise you for saying that I am afraid of Ajax.
-- Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall and glut grim Mars with his life's blood.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There is a vast difference between understanding and speaking a foreign tongue; you will, therefore, please to assist me still.'
-- It was, of course, with a perfect understanding of the min-ute and intricate interests which had armed friend against friend, and brought natural enemies to combat by each oth-er's side, that the scout and his companions now disposed themselves to deliberate on the measures that were to gov-ern their future movements, amid so many jarring and savage races of men.
-- he exclaimed, addressing himself to the savage who had a slight understanding of the language in which he spoke; 'the Yengeese, my foolish countrymen, have told them to take up the tomahawk, and strike their fathers in the Canadas, and they have forgotten their sex.
-- he bluntly asked, by way of obtaining a suitable understanding of the whole case before he ventured a prescription.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Stroeve, the unconquerable buffoon, had a love and an understanding of beauty which were as honest and sincere as was his own sincere and honest soul.
-- When I imagined that on seeing his pictures I should get a clue to the understanding of his strange character I was mistaken.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was intelligent and active; understanding quickly, he performed well; and Cyrus Harding became more and more attached to the boy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In her bower she was, but not alone, for besides the old lady her mother of whom mention has recently been made, there were present some half-dozen ladies of the neighborhood who had happened by a strange accident (and also by a little understanding among themselves) to drop in one after another, just about tea-time.
-- Nothing escaped the hawk's eye of the ugly little man, who, perfectly understanding what passed in the old lady's mind, turned uglier still in the fulness of his satisfaction, and bade her good morning, with a leer or triumph.
-- 'So be it with the understanding that I can't go beyond that day, neighbour, on any account.'
-- It was plain that the utmost the pony would consent to do, was to go in his own way up any street that the old gentleman particularly wished to traverse, but that it was an understanding between them that he must do this after his own fashion or not at all.
-- Then, three or four little boys dropped in, on legal errands from three or four attorneys of the Brass grade: whom Mr Swiveller received and dismissed with about as professional a manner, and as correct and comprehensive an understanding of their business, as would have been shown by a clown in a pantomime under similar circumstances.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By an understanding with the presiding justice their case was to be transferred to the session of the District Court, where the preponderance of peasants on the jury would insure their conviction.
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