fathom
GRE,1
英['fæð(ə)m]
|美['fæðəm]
日语:わかる
法语:brasse
德语:ergründen
韩语:길
俄语:braza
牛津词典
verb
- 理解;彻底了解;弄清真相
to understand or find an explanation for sth
- It is hard to fathom the pain felt at the death of a child.
丧子之痛是难以体会的。 - He couldn't fathom out what the man could possibly mean.
他弄不清这个男人的意思。
noun
- 英寻(测量水深单位,合6英尺或1.8米)
a unit for measuring the depth of water, equal to 6 feet or 1.8 metres
- The ship sank in 20 fathoms.
船沉在水下20英寻处。 - She kept her feelings hidden fathoms deep.
她把感情深深地隐藏在心中。
网络解释
vt. 看穿;彻底了解;测量…的深度
n. 英寻(测量水深的长度单位)
词形变化
名词复数形式:fathoms 现在分词:fathoming 过去式:fathomed 第三人称单数:fathoms 过去分词:fathomed
中文词源
fathom 法寻,彻底了解
来自PIE*pet, 展开,伸展,词源同feather, compete. 用作长度单位法寻,约略等于成人双臂展开长度。引申词义探索,彻底了解。
双语例句
- Jeremy's passive attitude was hard to fathom.
杰里米的消极态度令人费解。
- Life's path is narrow and men's hearts are hard to fathom.
世路窄狭,人心叵测。
- They cannot fathom how much you stand to lose in failure.
们不会明白你会在失败中失去多少东西,但是你是一件没有瑕疵的作品。
- They seek to know my meaning as the moon would fathom the sea.
它要追探了解我的意思,好像月亮探测大海。
- I just can't fathom out his intention.
我就是揣摩不透他的意图。
- This will help you to fathom the problems that may come if you do not perform these check ins.
这将帮助你量度问题,可到,如果你不履行这些移民局检查。
- We cannot even begin to fathom the depth of God's love for us.
我们甚至不能探寻主对我们的爱到底有多深。
- My Lord knows I try to fathom the rules of it.
我的主知道我试图弄清楚它的法则。
- I couldn't fathom how it was that a Christian church had continuously functioned.
我无法理解它是怎么一个基督教教堂,并不断发挥作用。
- Can you begin to fathom the humiliation I suffered?
你想感受一下我被羞辱的痛苦吗?
- Can you fathom out where he's gone?
你能猜出他到那儿去了吗?
- We cannot fathom their thoughts, so all we do is describe their appearance.
我们不能知道他们的思想,所以我们可以做的是描述他们的行为。
- And I vow to fathom the Tathagata's true meaning.
我今见闻得受持,愿解如来真实义。
- None of us will fully fathom the great truths of life until we finally unite with eternity at death.
我们当中也没人能洞悉生命的伟大真理,除非我们最终在死后与永恒相联合。
- If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
如果我拥有预言的天赋、能够洞悉所有的秘密和知识,还有能够移动高山的信心,却没有爱;我就一无是处。
- He is grasped through ecstatic love; how can you fathom Him without it?
他是通过心醉神迷的爱去领悟;你怎么能够不用爱去探索它呢?
- It is something that we just could not fathom.
这不仅仅是我我们的推测。
- Dear Humans can you fathom this?
亲爱的人类,你们能真正明白这点吗?
- At this time in her life, she could not fathom such an existence.
在她生命的此时,她没有能力去理解这样的一种生活。
- He from whose Whim sprang up the universe, how can intellect fathom His Divinity?
从他的心血来潮中宇宙腾跃出现,智力怎能测量他的神性?
- I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom.
我的责任比你们能想象到的要重要得多。
- Can you fathom out his intentions? They're a mystery to me.
你能弄清他的意图吗?对我来说这是个迷。
- What you stumbled upon goes deeper than you could fathom.
你碰着的事比你能理解的深奥。
- Often do we find that it is much more demanding to fathom a regulation than to utilize it.
我们常常发现运用一个规律比懂得它要难得多。
- I could have sworn I left the money on the desk. I can't fathom out where they've got to.
我可以发誓我是把钱放在书桌上的。我不知道它到哪儿去了。
- I cannot fathom his remarks.
我不能完全理解他的话。
- And it would be different in ways that we can't fathom yet.
那将是完全不同的方式,我们不能量度。
- Don't tell me the answer; let me try to fathom it out for myself.
别把答案告诉我;让我自己把它想出来。
语源
Old English fæthm, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vadem, vaamand German Fadensix feet. The original sense was something which embraces, (plural) the outstretched arms; hence, a unit of measurement based on the span of the outstretched arms, later standardized to six feet