He couldn't fathom out what the man could possibly mean.

他弄不清这个男人的意思。

《牛津词典》

It is hard to fathom the pain felt at the death of a child.

丧子之痛是难以体会的。

《牛津词典》

I really couldn't fathom what Steiner was talking about.

我真的不明白斯坦纳在说什么。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The "six" in the expression comes from the six feet that make up a fathom -- which is a little less than two meters.

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The people who know him best cannot fathom how the 24-year-old heir to a South Korean leather-goods fortune descended with such dizzying speed from a life of privilege and Ivy League education to a cell at Rikers Island prison.

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Columbia is one of 13 universities, museums and institutions, including Cambridge University Press and the London School of Economics, involved in Fathom.com , a for-profit offshoot of Columbia that sells courses of various lengths and types on the Internet.

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At first glance, it's hard to fathom all the angst over the Pittsburgh-based Center for Sustainable Shale Development.

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