comprehend是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 理解， 领会； 包含， 包括，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your unself-ishness cannot entirely comprehend how much my mind has gone on this; but, only ask yourself, how could my hap-piness be perfect, while yours was incomplete?'
-- So far as it was possible to comprehend him with-out overstepping those delicate and gradual approaches which Mr. Lorry felt to be the only safe advance, he at first supposed that his daughter's marriage had taken place yes-terday.
-- 'Upon my life,' said Carton, smiling, 'I find that easier to comprehend in my own mind, than to convey to yours.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be that 36 Andersen's Fairy Talesas it may, it did comprehend it; for in our souls there germi-nate far greater powers than we poor mortals, despite all our cleverness, have any notion of.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Sergey Ivanovitch, who had been talking with far less heat and one-sidedness than the professor, and who had sufficient breadth of mind to answer the professor, and at the same time to comprehend the simple and natural point of view from which the question was put, smiled and said: "That question we have no right to answer as yet."
-- Suppose you're married, you love your wife, but you're fascinated by another woman..." "Excuse me, but I'm absolutely unable to comprehend how...just as I can't comprehend how I could now, after my dinner, go straight to a baker's shop and steal a roll."
-- He cannot believe it, he cannot comprehend now how he can have acted as he did."
-- He felt that Yashvin, in spite of his apparent contempt for every sort of feeling, was the only man who could, so he fancied, comprehend the intense passion which now filled his whole life.
-- Anyway, she didn't comprehend it when she was very young.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- replied the detective, not seeming to comprehend what was said.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He discovered that Duer had enthusiasm for two composers, called Bach and Beethoven, presumably Germans, and that he himself did not yet comprehend all the ways of the world.
-- He could not comprehend that he was really going to a place of palm trees and brown faces and languid Christmas Eves.
-- He began, incredulously, to comprehend his freedom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There has been a time since when I have wondered whether, ifthe life before her could have been revealed to me at a glance, andso revealed as that a child could fully comprehend it, and if herpreservation could have depended on a motion of my hand, Iought to have held it up to save her.
-- However Imight have expressed my comprehension of it at that time, if I hadbeen called upon, I nevertheless did clearly comprehend in myown way, that it was another name for tyranny; and for a certaingloomy, arrogant, devil's humour, that was in them both.
-- I only know that there were three alarms beforethe bath was ready; and that on the occasion of the last and mostdesperate of all, I saw my aunt engage, single-handed, with asandy-headed lad of fifteen, and bump his sandy head against herown gate, before he seemed to comprehend what was the matter.
-- When we cried, and made it up, and were so blest again, that thebackkitchen, mangle and all, changed to Love's own temple, wherewe arranged a plan of correspondence through Miss Mills, alwaysto comprehend at least one letter on each side every day!
-- I wroteher a long letter, in which I tried to make her comprehend howblest I was, and what a darling Dora was.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think you must know Hartfield enough to comprehend that.'
-- But how sad it is that he should not live at home with his father!There is something so shocking in a child's being taken away from his parents and natural home!I never could comprehend how Mr. Weston could part with him.
-- Mr. John Knightley looked as if he did not comprehend the pleasure, but said only, coolly, 'I cannot wish to be snowed up a week at Randalls.'
-- A young woman, if she fall into bad hands, may be teazed, and kept at a distance from those she wants to be with; but one cannot comprehend a young man's being un-der such restraint, as not to be able to spend a week with his father, if he likes it.'
-- Harriet did think him all perfection, and maintained the non-existence of any body equal to him in person or good-ness and did, in truth, prove herself more resolutely in love than Emma had foreseen; but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend its continu-ing very long in equal force.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The flash was almost too novel for its inexpressibly dangerous nature to be at once realized, and they could only comprehend the magnificence of its beauty.
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