[with obj.](US informal)understand (something) intuitively or by empathy (美,非正式)直觉地理解;通过移情作用理解 because of all the commercials, children grok things immediately. 由于有这么多商业广告,孩子们通过直觉迅速理解各种事物。 ■[no obj.]empathize or communicate sympathetically; establish a rapport 感情移入,移情;神交;心灵相通;建立融洽关系
语源
mid 20th cent.: a word invented by Robert Heinlein (born 1907), American author