approfondir

Je voudrais approfondir mes connaissances en hongrois.

I'd like to improve my Hungarian skills.

Il est allé à Lima pour pouvoir y approfondir ses connaissances.

He went to Lima so that he could learn much there.

Il est allé en Angleterre afin d'approfondir sa connaissance de la culture.

He went to Britain to deepen his knowledge of the culture.

Je vais devoir approfondir cette question.

I will have to look deeper into this matter.

Nous devons approfondir ce mystère.

We must get to the bottom of this mystery.

Avec ces propos et d’autres semblables, le pauvre gentilhomme perdait le jugement. Il passait les nuits et se donnait la torture pour les comprendre, pour les approfondir, pour leur tirer le sens des entrailles, ce qu’Aristote lui-même n’aurait pu faire, s’il fût ressuscité tout exprès pour cela.

With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and tortured himself to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.