UNDERSTANDING

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Traducere în limba română

understanding I. substantiv

1. înţelegere, inteligenţă, deşteptăciune; pătrundere, pricepere, discernământ.

2. înţelegere, armonie, acord; convenţie;

to come to an understanding a ajunge la un acord.

3. (filoz.) raţiune, gândire.

4. plural (glumeţ, sl.) picioare; ghete, încălţăminte.

understanding II. adjectiv

inteligent, deştept; înţelegător.

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

There is no understanding a word of it.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Mr. Yates was beginning now to understand Sir Thomas's intentions, though as far as ever from understanding their source.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

“On that understanding,” said my aunt, “though it doesn't lessen the real obligation, I shall be very glad to leave him.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He was so made that he could work only with understanding.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I have seen many pieces of life, without beginning, without end, without understanding.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Van Helsing and I looked at each other with understanding.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I had now made a good progress in understanding and speaking the language.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

These discoveries promise to enhance our understanding of a wide range of diseases and aid development of new drugs.

(Scientists create ‘genetic atlas’ of proteins in human blood, University of Cambridge)