In this case the verb may be understood.

在这种情况下这动词可以省略。

He esteemed that he understood what I had said.

他认为已经听懂我说意思了。

The significance of a green traffic light is generally understood.

人们通常都明白绿色交通灯含义。

People often derogate what they don't understand.

人们常诋毁他们不懂东西。

Civil Service documents are often written in gobbledegook that ordinary people cannot understand.

政府文件中常使用术语,普通人看不懂.

It is understood that you will come.

相信你会来。

You have not understood; allow me to elucidate.

你没理,让我释一下。

She intuitively understood his need to be alone.

她凭直觉就知道他需要独处。

She managed to make herself understood in English.

她设法用英语自己意思。

I really can't understand his amorphous ideas.

我真弄不懂他那些乱七八糟想法。

He is understood to be a man of ability.

他被认为是一个有能力人。

It is understood that hard work can bring success.

不言而喻, 艰苦工作可带来成功。

These technical terms are difficult for the layman to understand.

这些专术语是外行人难以理。

Some persons understood this as an imputation on Mrs. Ducker .

有人释说，这个是有伤克夫人人格。

Only the few men around the president understood his motive.

只有总统身边几个人了他动机。

The President is understood to have secretly left the country.

人们获悉总统已秘密地离开了这个国家。

They were understood to have reviewed all major foreign policy issues.

据了, 他们讨论了所有重大外交政策问题。

He is the man (whom) they understood to be extremely rich.

他就是那个他们认为腰缠万贯人。

Two chemists were talking shop, and I hardly understood a word they said.

两位化学家在谈论他们本行事, 他们话我一句也听不懂。

I understood him to say that he wouldn't be able to come.

我听他说过他不能来。