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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I conjectured, therefore, that he found on the paper signs for speech which he un-derstood, and I ardently longed to comprehend these also; but how was that possible when I did not even understand the sounds for which they stood as signs?
-- Safie was always gay and happy; she and I improved rapidly in the knowledge of language, so that in two months I began to comprehend most of the words uttered by my protectors.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you comprehend the imaginary case?"
-- That I sometimes struggled with real people, in the belief that they were murderers, and that I would all at once comprehend that they meant to do me good, and would then sink exhausted in their arms, and suffer them to lay me down, I also knew at the time.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His answer, as I could comprehend it, was, 'that this must be a work of time, not to be thought on without the advice of his council, and that first I must lumos kelmin pesso desmar lon emposo;' that is, swear a peace with him and his kingdom.
-- This labour took up several days' conversation, before he was able to comprehend me.
-- y master was yet wholly at a loss to understand what Mmotives could incite this race of lawyers to perplex, disquiet, and weary themselves, and engage in a confed-eracy of injustice, merely for the sake of injuring their fellow-animals; neither could he comprehend what I meant in saying, they did it for hire.
-- I am not in the least provoked at the sight of a lawyer, a pick-pocket, a colonel, a fool, a lord, a gamester, a politician, a whoremonger, a physician, an evidence, a suborner, an at-torney, a traitor, or the like; this is all according to the due course of things: but when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience; nei-ther shall I be ever able to comprehend how such an animal, and such a vice, could tally together.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Utterly indifferent, perfectly self-reliant, never at a loss, and yet never at her ease, with her figure in company with them there, and her mind apparently quite alone it was of no use 'going in' yet awhile to comprehend this girl, for she baffled all penetration.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a reason, and it may be regarded as a good one, why my uncle objected to display his learning more than was absolutely necessary: he stammered; and when intent upon explaining the phenomena of the heavens, was apt to find himself at fault, and allude in such a vague way to sun, moon, and stars that few were able to comprehend his meaning.
-- I began to comprehend his character, simply from the way in which he listened to the wild and impassioned verbiage of my worthy uncle.
-- I took in every item of what I saw, and I began to comprehend the succession of phenomena which had preceded its formation.
-- Those who understand Alpine climbing will comprehend our difficulties.
-- No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arthur looked at Little Dorrit for help to comprehend this, and was struck by seeing her so timid and red.
-- But don't you comprehend her on any account.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First: According to magnitude I divide the whales into three primary BOOKS (subdivisible into CHAPTERS), and these shall comprehend them all, both small and large.
-- Oh, hard!that to fire others, the match itself must needs be wasting!What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do!They think me mad Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened!That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and Aye!I lost this leg.
-- But to comprehend it aright, you must know something of the curious internal structure of the thing operated upon.
-- much more, how comprehend his face, when face he has none?
-- How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untravelled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely poring over his dead attenuated skeleton, stretched in this peaceful wood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Giles was at a loss to comprehend what this outcry meant; but Harry Maylie, whose perceptions were something quicker, and who had heard Oliver's history from his mother, understood it at once.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.'
-- 'Then,' observed Elizabeth, 'you must comprehend agreat deal in your idea of an accomplished woman.'
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