grok

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɹɒk/    美 /ˈɡɹɑk/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually. slang,transitive
    — I do not grok all fullness of what I read. In the history written by Master William Shakespeare I found myself full of happiness at the death of Romeo. Then I read on and learned that he had discorporated too soon – or so I thought I grokked. Why?
  2. To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies. slang,transitive
    — I finally grok Perl.

词形变化

groks present,singular,third-person grokking participle,present groking participle,present grokked participle,past grokked past groked participle,past groked past

词汇关系

衍生词
grokkable grokker groksucker
相关词
gurgle guttle

词源

Coined by American author and aeronautical engineer Robert A. Heinlein in 1961 in his novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein invented the word for his fictitious Martian language. It is described as meaning “to drink” and, figuratively, “to drink in all available aspects of reality”, “to become one with the observed”. William Tenn later asked Heinlein if it could have been inspired by the term griggo, which featured in Tenn's Venus and the Seven Sexes (1949); Heinlein “looked startled, then thought about it for a long time (and) shrugged, (saying) ‘It's possible, very possible.’”
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