beyond ... comprehension• And the creatures of the Dark Ireland, Grainne, are soulless and cruel and evilbeyond your comprehension.• Overall. the biology of the Chesapeake was clearly of an intricacybeyond present comprehension.• To force them to arrive early is beyond comprehension.• She has difficulty with prostitution as something to be understood because she has no direct experience with it-it is beyond her comprehension.• The complexity of the actualexchanges in most economic systems is beyond comprehension.• This was heresy, or at least beyond his comprehension Erica could see the effect her words were having.• Waves of ecstatic and delicatecolorvibrated around me and lulled me to a sense of peacebeyond comprehension.• Her world was tiltingbeyond my comprehension.
Origincomprehension
(1400-1500)Latincomprehensio, from comprehendere; COMPRHEND
1understanding理解ADJECTIVE | VERB + COMPREHENSION | COMPREHENSION + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤human人的理解力VERB + COMPREHENSION➤have理解◇He apparently has no comprehension of the suffering of others.他顯然不理解其他人所受的苦難。➤defy無法理解◇The level of violence used defies comprehension.使用暴力的程度讓人難以置信。➤check考查理解能力◇There are exercises for checking comprehension.有測驗理解力的練習。COMPREHENSION + NOUN➤skills理解技能PREPOSITION➤beyond (sb's) comprehension(某人)無法理解◇Why he can't do it himself is beyond my comprehension.我不理解他為什麼自己不能做。➤without comprehension沒有理解PHRASES➤a lack of comprehension缺乏領悟◇He showed a total lack of comprehension.他顯得完全沒有理解。comprehension
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2language exercise語言練習ADJECTIVE | VERB + COMPREHENSION | COMPREHENSION + NOUNADJECTIVE➤listening, reading聽力/閱讀理解VERB + COMPREHENSION➤do做理解練習◇We did a listening comprehension.我們做了一次聽力練習。COMPREHENSION + NOUN➤test理解能力測試➤question理解問題➤skills理解技巧