They say that you do not need to be extremely intelligent to understand something.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

It's a kind of imprisonment, understanding, and when Heidegger says, wouldn't it be great not to have to merely understand?

理解是一种禁锢，海德格尔说，不必去理解不是很好吗？

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Kant says people ought to be an end and not a means for us; we ought to understand them on their terms."

康德说人们应该使我们的终点，而不是途径;,我们应该从他们的角度来理解他们“

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"When I was reared in the British West Indies my grandmother used to always tell me, you may not be loved by certain forces in a society and you have to understand why.

VOA: special.2011.03.20

It does not take one to know one; to understand the truths about the French, you do not yourself need to be French.

这不需要同类互知,你不需要是法国人,才能了解法国人

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You got to be a farmer to understand these things-- not everything that you try works.

你要成为一位农民就必须理解,你所从事事业的方方面面

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If you get asked about these readings, as you will on the exams, we're not going to be picky, and we're not expecting you to remember details, and not expecting you to understand concepts that you can't just grasp from the readings themselves.

如果到考试的时候,碰到这方面的问题,放心,我们不会太苛刻的,我们不指望你们记住具体的细节,也没想强迫你们去理解,仅从材料本身无法获得的思想

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In other words, It would be an extraordinary thing not to understand, Heiddeger is saying.

换句话说，如果不去理解是很了不起的，海德格尔这样说。

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