形容词
名词
1. 了解；掌握；知识
If you have an understanding of something, you know how it works or know what it means.
2. 能谅解的；宽容的；通情达理的
If you are understanding towards someone, you are kind and forgiving.
3. 理解；谅解
If you show understanding, you show that you realize how someone feels or why they did something, and are not hostile towards them.
4. 相互理解；友好互信
If there is understanding between people, they are friendly towards each other and trust each other.
5. （非正式的）协议
An understanding is an informal agreement about something.
6. 了解；领会；理解
If you say that it is your understanding that something is the case, you mean that you believe it to be the case because you have heard or read that it is.
7. 以…为条件；假如
If you agree to do something on the understanding that something else will be done, you do it because you have been told that the other thing will definitely be done.
1. the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
e.g. we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil
2. the cognitive condition of someone who understands
e.g. he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect
Synonym: apprehensiondiscernmentsavvy
3. an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
e.g. his sympathies were always with the underdog
I knew I could count on his understanding
Synonym: sympathy
4. the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
e.g. they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business
there was an understanding between management and the workers
Synonym: agreement