英语词汇“construe”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINconstrue

Origin:

1300-1400 Late Latin construere, from Latin, ‘to construct’, from com- ( ➔ COM-) + struere ‘to build’

VERB TABLE

construe

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	construe
	he, she, it	construes
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	construed
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have construed
	he, she, it	has construed
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had construed
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will construe
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have construed

Continuous Form
Present	I	am construing
	he, she, it	is construing
	you, we, they	are construing
Past	I, he, she, it	was construing
	you, we, they	were construing
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been construing
	he, she, it	has been construing
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been construing
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be construing
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been construing

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Accordingly, we would construe the guarantee and debenture in the same way that we have construed the mortgage deeds.
Even a thickening waist, while annoying, can be construed as a viewer problem, to an extent.
Instances occur where the courts feel obliged to construe a statute in a way that they themselves acknowledge creates outrageous injustice.
Properly construed, it is, we think, a promising theory.
That role has always been narrowly construed.
The district court recognized that the Alabama statute violated the establishment clause as construed by the Supreme Court.
The way the theory construed its object would determine the nature of the theory itself.

Longman Language Activatorto understand the meaning of something in a particular way► make of

to believe that something strange, difficult, or unusual has a particular meaning: · Have you read Dawson's letter? What do you make of it?· Tom could see that McCarron didn't know what to make of the information.

► read

to think that a remark, an action, an event etc shows that someone has a particular opinion or feeling even though they do not say this directly: · Good managers are usually able to read a situation quickly and take the right action.read something as something: · Men shouldn't be surprised if women read this behaviour as threatening.

► take something to mean

to choose to understand a particular meaning in someone's words or actions without being sure that this is the correct meaning: · There was a pause, which he took to mean she was angry.· Television producers should not take low ratings to mean failure.

► see something as

to understand a remark, a piece of writing, an event etc as having a particular meaning, especially because of your own feelings, opinions, or situation: · I see this poem as an attack on social injustice.· Young children often see the birth of a new brother or sister as a great threat.

► interpret

to choose to understand a piece of information or group of facts in one of several possible ways: · Fairy tales can be interpreted in several different ways.interpret something as something: · The statement was interpreted as a threat against the United States.

► understand by

to find a particular meaning in an expression or in the name of something, even though other people may understand it differently: · What do you understand by the term "alternative medicine"?· He spoke of profits, by which I understood profits for his company, not for us.

► understand something/somebody to mean

to think that someone's remarks, a word, a piece of writing etc means something or has a particular message, even though this is not stated directly: · "It's very good. You'll like it," their mother said, and gave them a look that they understood to mean they must eat it whether they liked it or not.

► construe something as

formal to understand a remark or action in a particular way, when there are other possible ways of understanding it: · Such activities by the Americans could be construed as an act of war.· Films that could be construed as offensive are shown after nine o'clock.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► accordingly

· References in the Code to exempt fund managers are construed accordingly.

► as

· Was any attack on them to be construed as national treason?· Invariably, these family definitions, whatever their content, are construed as positive by those that subscribe to them.· Besides, the words could be construed as flirtatious, and she didn't want him getting the wrong impression again.· In dozens of written comments about Brezzo and Rice, not one could be construed as positive or supportive.· But if they were used only after proper training and in self-defence, how can that be construed as unprovoked aggression?· And we tell our graduate students that they must never take such risks, construing as scruple what in fact is timidity.· According to Gandhi, it is when symbols become fetishes and embodiments of the divine, that they might be construed as idols.

NOUN► act

· Lord Reid said that the courts must carry out this task by construing the Act as a whole.

► clause

· The courts were generally reluctant to construe an exclusion clause as covering cases of breach of fundamental term or fundamental breach.· To be sure, this Court has construed the Commerce Clause to accommodate unanticipated changes over the past two centuries.

► court

· The court construes it according to its terms and finds that, so construed, it enables tax to be saved or minimized.· To be sure, this Court has construed the Commerce Clause to accommodate unanticipated changes over the past two centuries.· There are three rules of construction which the courts might employ when construing a statute.· It is for the courts alone to construe such legislation.· Although the position is not entirely clear, it seems that a court construing the terms will take punctuation into account.· Instances occur where the courts feel obliged to construe a statute in a way that they themselves acknowledge creates outrageous injustice.· The courts construed this broadly to include the documents which initiated the proceedings, the pleadings and the adjudication.· The function of the court is to construe and apply the enactments of Parliament.

► word

· It matters because it means that a trust can be construed even from words which look rather unpromising.· At one time this requirement was construed broadly, so that words merely precatory were accepted as raising a trust.