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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++com·pre·hen·si·ble /ˌkɒmprɪˈhensəbəl $ ˌkɑːm-/ adjective  UNDERSTANDeasy to understand 易于理解的 SYN understandable OPP incomprehensible Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible. 她的发言含混不清,几乎无法听懂。comprehensible to The procedure must be clear and comprehensible to all staff. 工作步骤必须明白易懂,让所有员工都能理解。comprehensibility /ˌkɒmprɪhensəˈbɪləti $ ˌkɑːm-/ noun [uncountable]
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comprehensibleOur treatment in this chapter will try to be as informal as possible in order to be comprehensible.Each entry in the guide is brief and immediately comprehensible.Visual aids can make lessons much more interesting and comprehensible.Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible.In so doing, it gave them system and continuity and went far to make economic life comprehensible.Metaphor, it turns out, is the key to making computers comprehensible.Magnificence is admirable if not always comprehensible, humility is very unattractive to the modern Western mind.comprehensible instructionsThe more directly comprehensible parts of the Challenger's programme were thus made available to the public at a provisional stage.Photographic reportage, the cinema and television have produced a lingua franca of universally comprehensible pictures.Land warfare sixty-five years after Waterloo would still have been comprehensible to Napoleon.The music was experimental, and not comprehensible to the average concert-goer.comprehensible toMost avant-garde music is not comprehensible to the average concertgoer.
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comprehensible
comprehensible /ˌkɒmprɪˈhensəbəl, ˌkɒmprɪˈhensɪbəl $ ˌkɑːm-/ adjective
easy to understand
   SYN  understandable
   OPP  incomprehensible:
    Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible.
    comprehensible to
    The procedure must be clear and comprehensible to all staff.
—comprehensibility /ˌkɒmprɪhensəˈbɪləti, ˌkɒmprɪhensɪˈbɪləti $ ˌkɑːm-/ noun [uncountable]


com·pre·hen·sibleBrE /ˌkɒmprɪˈhensəbl/ 🔊NAmE /ˌkɑːmprɪˈhensəbl/ 🔊 adjective~ (to sb) (formal) that can be understood by sb 可理解的;能懂的easily/readily comprehensible to the average reader一般读者容易懂的 OPP incomprehensible com·pre·hen·sib·il·ity BrE /ˌkɒmprɪˌhensəˈbɪləti/ 🔊NAmE /ˌkɑːmprɪˌhensəˈbɪləti/ 🔊 noun [uncountable]