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Construe Make Wrongly Misconstrue N   [V 英 Kən'struː] 美

英语单词 construe
英美音标 英 [kən'struː] 美 [kən'struː]
中文释义 v.解释;翻译;作句法分析
英语例句 (1) His remarks were wrongly construed.
(2) You can construe what he said in a number of different ways.
(3) This sentence is difficult to construe.
(4) Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it over perfectly.
(5) beady drop
中文例句 (1) 他的话被错误地解释了。
(2) 他的话可以有好几种解释。
(3) 这个句子很难翻译。
(4) 让他把信件逐字翻译成英文,并且完美地对它作语法分析。
vocabulary简明 If you interpret something or make sense of it, you construe its meaning. If the new girl in your class asks to sit with you at lunch, you could construe that she wants to be friends. You can never have too many friends!
vocabulary扩展 To make an assumption based on evidence is to construe. You could construe that eating an entire box of cookies might make you feel a bit sick. And you might not want to eat them again for a very long time. The opposite of construe is misconstrue, which means to falsely or wrongly interpret. If you get a poor grade on an essay, you shouldn't construe that your teacher dislikes you. If you do, you misconstrue your work for his feelings.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]理解;领会 If something is construed in a particular way, its nature or meaning is interpreted in that way.
  [be V-ed as n]
  [V n as n]
  [V n prep/adv]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • What may seem helpful behaviour to you can be construed as interference by others...

    在你看来似乎是施助的行为在别人眼中可能就会被解读成一种干涉。

  • He may construe the approach as a hostile act...

    他也许会将这种做法理解为敌视行为。

  • We are taught to construe these terms in a particular way.

    我们被教导要以特定的方式理解这些词语。

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