Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

只有向后看才能理解生活，但要生活好，则必须向前看。

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The flies, however, who understood no German, would not be turned away, but came back again in ever-increasing companies.

然而，那些听不懂德语的苍蝇不会被赶走，而是成群结队地回来。

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But is there a language that can be understood by everyone in the world?

但是，有没有一种语言是世界上每个人都能理解的呢？

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But it was the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes who understood that chocolate could be a valuable investment.

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But how did Plato intend this dialogue to be understood? Note that Socrates never defends himself by reference to the doctrine of unlimited free speech.

但柏拉图到底想要这场辩证,如何被理解呢？请注意,苏格拉底的自辩从未援引,无限自由言论学说。

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As we'll learn from Jakobson next week, literature can be understood--or what he calls the study of literature, "poetics"--can be understood as a subfield of semiotics, but semiotics is not in itself a literary theory.

下周我们学雅各布森的时候也会看到，文学可以被理解为，诗学，即符号学的一个分支，但是符号学不是文学理论。

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Such claims may be misguided, but cannot be understood, much less challenged, by pretending that Islam has nothing at all to do with them.

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Shanghai and Beijing, but this must be understood in the broader context that many other regions of the country are not experiencing analogous bubble-like conditions.

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Some of the new money may also be invested in the U.S., but most is understood to be Europe-focused.

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