per‧ceive W3 AC / pəsiv $ pər- / 动词 [及物动词，不用于进行时]

1 written to understand or think of something or someone in a particular way → perception

perceive something/somebody as something

Even as a young woman she had been perceived as a future chief executive.

perceive something/somebody to be something

Often what is perceived to be aggression is simply fear.

Children who do badly in school tests often perceive themselves to be failures.

2 formal to notice, see, or recognize something → perceptive :

That morning, he perceived a change in Franca’s mood.

Cats are not able to perceive colour.

perceive that

He perceived that there was no other way out of the crisis.