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comprehensible

adjective
🔊/ˌkɒmprɪˈhensəbl/
🔊/ˌkɑːmprɪˈhensəbl/
(formal)
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  1. comprehensible (to somebody) that can be understood by somebody可理解的；能懂的
    • easily/readily comprehensible to the average reader一般读者容易懂的
    opposite incomprehensible
    Extra Examples
    • His French was barely comprehensible.他的法语很难让人明白。
    • The instructions should be easily comprehensible to parents.这些说明家长应该容易理解。
    • The system is perfectly comprehensible to most people.这套系统对大多数人来说完全可以弄明白。
    • We changed the wording of the text to make it more comprehensible.我们改动了措辞以使内容更易理解。
    • The novel is easily comprehensible to the average reader.那本小说一般读者都容易读懂。
    • The public needs information in a comprehensible form.公众需要一种易于理解的信息。
    • We need to make the process of buying and selling homes more comprehensible.我们需要使购房过程更加容易理解。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • become
    • make something
    • …
    adverb
    • easily
    • readily
    • entirely
    • …
    preposition
    • to
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    Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French compréhensible or Latin comprehensibilis, from comprehens- ‘seized, comprised’, from the verb comprehendere, from com- ‘together’ + prehendere ‘grasp’.