It is important to understand the powerful economic and social forces at work behind our own actions.

重要的是要理解在我们自己的行动背后起作用的那些强大的经济和社会力量。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I've read the whole book from beginning to end and still can't understand it.

我把整本书从头到尾看了一遍，但还是没看懂。

《牛津词典》

It helps to know French and Creole if you want to understand some of the lyrics.

如果你想明白其中一些歌词，需要懂法语和克里奥尔语。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

This language was developed to make it easier to understand and translate documents used at aircraft repair centers around the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

And it requires us to understand history not in moral terms, such as "good" and "evil," but rather in aesthetic terms.

它需要我们,不是以道德层面去理解历史，去判断好坏“,而是要从审美的角度去看。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Because I really want to understand what it is like for a son and a father to relate each other.

因为我很想让知道,一对父子,是如何默契相连的。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

He was then required to sit down to study it and to understand it.

CNN

They also had to understand how institutions function, and to understand it in detail.

WSJ: The Old Bunch | Meyer Levin | Destiny's Children | Masterpiece by Joseph Epstein

"It's important to learn about the land, to appreciate it, and to understand the threats to it and the opportunities to better protect it, " he said recently during a rest day from his journey, officially called TrekEast.

CNN: Trekking 5,000 miles to connect man and wildlife