3N-UNCOUNT 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. 理解;谅解
We would like to thank them for their patience and understanding.
6N-SING [oft NOUN that]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. 了解;领会;理解
It is my understanding that this torture has been going on for many years.
据我了解,这种折磨已经持续很多年了。
Our understanding is that they wanted to be in Washington.
7PHR-CONJ-SUBORD 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. 以…为条件;假如
Kevin had treatment on the understanding that he would attempt to overcome his drinking problem.
凯文接受了治疗,但条件是他要努力克服自身的酗酒问题。
Quotations
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill willMartin Luther King Jr.Letter from Birmingham Jail
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understandingFrancis BaconNovum Organum
I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put outBible: II Esdras