And then a cultivation of the self, you have to understand you have a history You have to understand you relationship with tradition, you have a community that shaped you, a family that shaped you, sometimes good sometimes bad.

并培养自我意识，你要理解你的过去,你必须理解自己与传统的关系，理解改变过你的社区，改变过你的家庭，改变的结果或好或坏。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

When you understand a sentence I said you have to have the capacity to understand a sentence even if you've never heard it before.

当你在理解我所说的一句话时,你必须要拥有理解这句话的能力,即使你在之前从未听到过这句话

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We know there has to be some effect of the environment shaping language, obviously, because in order to know English you have to have heard English, in order to know Dutch you have had to heard, to--had to have learned and heard Dutch.

我们知道,很明显某些环境作用,塑造了语言,因为要理解英语,你必须听过英语,要理解荷兰语,你必须学过和听过荷兰语

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选