v.动词
comprehend, appreciate, see, understand这组词都有“明白”或“理解”的意思。其区别在于：
1.see的基本意思可指一般视觉的“看见”,也可指有意识地“观察”,引申可表示由观察而“领会”“理解”。
2.comprehend指用智力充分而完全地理解事物的内在含义。例如:
The child read the story but didn't comprehend its full meaning.那孩子看了这篇故事,但没有理解它的全部意思。
If you can use a word correctly and effectively you comprehend it.如果你能正确、有效地使用一个词,你就是了解它了。3.understand则是明白别人说的话,完全了解某种事实。例如:
My wife doesn't understand me.我的妻子不理解我。
I've read the letter but I don't understand it.这封信我已经看过了,可是看不懂。4.appreciate指对某物有较深的理解能力,强调“欣赏”。例如:
She appreciated a work of art.她欣赏一件艺术品。
I am incapable of appreciating classical music.我不会欣赏古典音乐。comprehend, apprehend参见apprehend条。
contain，include，embrace，involve，comprehend，hold，comprise这些动词均含有“包括，包含”之意。
contain普通用词，所涉及的物体常常是其组成部分或内容。强调包容关系。既可指具体有形的东西，也可指抽象无形的东西。
include普通用词，指一整体包含着各独立的部分，也指某东西包含另一东西的某一部分。
embrace正式用词，指把某事物纳入整个之中。
involve指包含因整体的性质决定的成分或结果。所包括的往往是无形的，不可触知的东西，多用作引申。
comprehend正式用词，指包含在整体范围以内。
hold常和contain换用。指能够容纳或有足够的容纳量。强调包容能力。
comprise书面用词，暗指一个整体包括不同部分所组成，可与include交换使用。
know，learn，comprehend，understand这些动词都含“懂、知道、明了”之意。
know普通用词，多指通过学习、经验或他人传播而得到知识，含直接知道的意味。
learn通常指通过他人而获得消息或情况，侧重从不知到知的变化过程。
comprehend侧重熟悉了解的过程。
understand指对事物已有彻底的认识，不仅知其性质、含义和细节，而且了解其内外的关系。
understand，comprehend，appreciate，apprehend，grasp这些动词均有“理解”之意。
understand一般用词，很常用，指对事实或意义知道得很清楚。
comprehend较正式用词，指对较复杂的事物能透彻理解其意义。
appreciate欣赏，指对某事物或意义有正确的认识，对其价值的肯定。
apprehend指知道某事物或某观念的大概意义，但未能理解其内涵意义，暗含一知半解意味。
grasp从本义抓紧、抓住，引申作“理解、掌握”。
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用作动词v.
用作及物动词
S+ ～+n./pron.I did not comprehend his meaning.我不理解他的意思。
The child read the story but didn't comprehend its full meaning.那孩子看了这篇故事，但没有理解它的全部意思。
It is difficult to comprehend the magnitude of his crime.很难理解他所犯罪行的严重性。
The park comprehends all the land on the other side of the river.这公园包括了河那边的整个土地。
动词89%,名词11%
用作及物动词I cannotcomprehendthis phrase.我无法理解这个片语。
If you can use a word correctly and effectively youcomprehendit.你如果可以正确有效地使用一个词，你就是了解它了。
The child couldn'tcomprehendthe text.这孩子不懂该课文的含义。
The parkcomprehendsall the land on the other side of the river.这个公园包括河对岸的所有地方。 In order to understand this proportion we must pause a moment, for it is something not easily comprehended.
说到这里，我们需要做一点补充，因为理解这种变化的比率不是一件很容易的事情。 yeeyan
In this danger Kitty is also comprehended.
吉蒂也有这种危险。 hjenglish
The creative process is a path of discovery. The hand makes drawings and arrives at solutions before the mind has even comprehended them.
创作的过程是一条探索之旅。手在心智还没领会之前，就已经找到解答。 blog.sina.com.cn
The knowledge of realms that all men comprehended before the “ fall”.
在“瓦解”之前，全人类理解的各个领域的知识。 blog.sina.com.cn
Earnshaw and I, the sexton, and six men to carry the coffin, comprehended the whole attendance.
恩萧和我、教堂司事，和另外六个人一起抬棺木，这便是送殡全体。 putclub.com
Forge and forgery bill crime prescribed by Criminal Law should be comprehended from both formalism and substantially.
对我国刑法所规定的票据伪造、造应从形式主义和实质主义两方面来理解。 jukuu
He comprehended the danger, and began barking to awaken his master; and this not sufficing, he jumped up, and gently bit his finger.
他意识到了危险，开始朝他的主人叫喊试图叫醒他，但是没有用。于是他跳起来，轻轻地咬主人的手指。 kekenet
Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her.
她的病脑完全不能了解当时的事，她以为他是为了她来的，她受不了那副凶相。 ebigear
However, in many projects, most of the architecture and design of a method can be clearly defined and comprehended directly within RMC.
然而，在许多项目中，可以直接在 RMC 中清楚地定义并理解方法的大部分架构和设计。 ibm
I believe Lin Zexu and Zuo Zongtang also comprehended the meaning of war by ways of asking.
我相信，林则徐和左宗棠，曾从这种逼索中领悟过刀兵炮火的意义。 yeeyan
In a cross- cultural situation only the first or second question may have been comprehended.
在跨文化情形下，可能只有第一个或第二个问题被理解。 iciba
It was like an intuition; he comprehended it with his clear and sagacious promptitude.
这好象是种直觉，他凭他那种清晰和敏锐的机警，已经了解到这一点。 ebigear
Oh, he comprehended well enough now the quiet bitterness of the smile that he had seen so often on his master's lips!
啊，他现在终于充分领悟到了，老师嘴上的微笑常常流露出的默默无声的苦涩的含义！ yeeyan
Our practice proves that what is perceived cannot at once be comprehended and that only what is comprehended can be more deeply perceived.
我们的实践证明：感觉到了的东西，我们不能立刻理解它，只有理解了的东西才更深刻地感觉它。 hotdic
Semantic interoperability indicates the meaning of data can be comprehended unambiguously by both humans and computer programs, and that information can be processed in a meaningful way.
语义互操作性表示数据的含义可以明确地被人类和计算机程序理解，而且可以通过有意义的方式来处理该信息。 ibm
She is doubtful that man will ever fully understand whales which operate on a scale too large to be comprehended by human senses.
她对于人类能否在未来对鲸鱼有透彻的了解表示怀疑，因为现在的研究的规模过于庞大，超出了人类的理解范围。 ecocn
So a file must be comprehended in a wider sense.
所以，对档案必须有一个更广义的理解。 mysearch.100e.com
Such mysterious and quiet sound can only be comprehended when you have exchanges with them from heart to heart.
那样神奇悄然的音响唯有你和它心与心的交流才可以领会。 artron
The learner at this level solves practical problems by applying information comprehended at the previous level.
这个层次的学习者通过运用在以前各层次理解的知识去解决实际问题。 bokee
These ye know these ye have comprehended; but do ye take thought of same?
这些你们已经知道，这些你们已经领会，但是你们细想过这些吗？ chinaen
Yet man is an evolved species. His behaviour makes no sense unless its evolution is comprehended.
但人是进化的物种，只有在进化得到理解的情况下他的行为才显得有意义。 ecocn
Comprehended its magic power, value with latent of abundant performance dint.
理解了它的魅力、价值和潜在的丰富表现力。 grandfather-art.com