difficulty understanding
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdifficultyandunderstanding
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difficulty
noun
uk/ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəl.ti/us/ˈdɪf.ə.kəl.t̬i/
the fact of not being easy to do ...
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understanding
adjective
uk/ˌʌn.dəˈstæn.dɪŋ/us/ˌʌn.dɚˈstæn.dɪŋ/
An understanding person who has the ability to know how other people are feeling, and can forgive them if they do ...
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(Definition ofdifficultyandunderstandingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is good evidence that humans havedifficultyunderstandingrandom processes as part of causative accounts.
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In the absence of discussing these experiences with others, children may have particulardifficultyunderstandingand coping with trauma.
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When a child hasdifficultyunderstandingspoken language, an obvious question is whether the problem is related to poor auditory perception.
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It is possible that the students in the younger grades had moredifficultyunderstandingthe harassment questions than did the older students.
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It is also possible that they havedifficultyunderstandingthe relationship between some verbs and the prepositions used to head obligatory arguments.
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Students may not always be able to produce correct and sometimes idiomatic collocations, but they have lessdifficultyunderstandingthem.
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In addition, with respect to retrospective reports, the person being assessed may havedifficultyunderstanding the concept of an average, which is required when making a retrospective estimate.
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Although most studies with this scale have focused on adolescents, our pretest data indicated that 10-year-olds have nodifficultyunderstandingthe items and response format.
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It is also noteworthy that individual listeners were apparently affected differently by the presence of noise, with some showing much greaterdifficultyunderstandingnoisy utterances than others.
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They have difficulty acquiring concepts of others as people with their own subjective lives and havedifficultyunderstandingthemselves to be objects of others' thoughts and feelings.
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These results suggest that, although early bilinguals have littledifficultyunderstandingquiet speech, they are less able than monolingual listeners to tolerate acoustic degradations typical in everyday listening environments.
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We assume that there should be no perceptual or conceptualdifficultyunderstandingthat the entities undergoing either spontaneous or caused movement are indeed involved in a movement event.
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I am sure none of you will havedifficultyunderstandingit.
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If he cannot, will he tell us which part of the word "yes" he hasdifficultyunderstanding?
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I had the greatestdifficultyunderstandingthe reports on the county's funding.
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The miners havedifficultyunderstandingwhy some of them get benefit and others do not.
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I understand that some of them havedifficultyunderstandingsuch matters.
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Many parents still havedifficultyunderstandingthe terms used in early years.
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I believe that the people from these two areas have greatdifficultyunderstandingone another.
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The report states that that is garbled and that the average defendant would havedifficultyunderstandinghis position and the choice open to him.
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