★ appreciate vt
① 欣赏;赏识
I really appreciate your handwriting. 你字写得真好。
② 感激;感谢
I appreciate your help very much. 非常感谢你的帮助。
▲ appreciate doing sth
I really appreciate working with someone who does such a good job.
我非常乐意与工作如此出色的人共事。
I'd appreciate it if you could give me the opportunity.
如果您能给我这个机会的话我将不胜感激。
③理解;明白
(2010北京)
It took me a long time before I was able to fully appreciate what my parents had done for me. 我用了很长时间才完全理解父母为我所做的一切。
★ appreciation n.
① 欣赏;赏识;鉴赏:
Chinese arts have won the appreciation of a lot of people outside China.
中国艺术已经赢得了许多国外人士的赞赏。
② 感激;感谢:
I would like to express my appreciation and thanks to you all!.
我向所有人表示诚挚的感谢!
③ 理解;认识:
She had no appreciation of the difficulties we were facing.
她没有认识到我们所面临的困难。
（2019全国卷）
I once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl's writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful words.
我曾经写过一篇关于罗尔德.达尔对童话影响的论文，它使我对他奇特而令人愉快的话语产生了一种新的理解。