"I don't understand. How can they have no record of her being there." "There has to be some explanation."

VOA: special.2009.06.12

I think she is a character that you can--if not identify with--at least, you can understand and be interested in.

也至少能够理解和感兴趣的角色，所以，在这本书，还有我们下次。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If I understand it correctly, science as science insofar as its belike scientific methodology, he needs to be defended.

如果我没有弄错的话，就论文所用的科学方法本身而言,就论文所用的科学方法本身而言，作者的立场应该受到维护。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Just simple things so that way they get to understand what it means to be an American student."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

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？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"Come on." she says. "You do not need to be a rocket scientist to understand this."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

We can understand something that's fully random and work out the statistics and be comfortable with that to some degree.

我们能够理解一些,充满随机性，然后通过统计分析来解决的问题,而且一定程度上我们对此也很熟悉。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I would like to understand if these men will be allowed to keep their horses."

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Second skill we want you to have at the end of this course is the ability to use a vocabulary of computational tools in order to be able to understand programs written by others.

我们想让你们在课程结束时,掌握的第二个技能,是有能力使用计算工具的语言,用来理解,别人编写的程序。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The patient would feel them, be able to examine them and,if successful, finally understand them.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

We might be able to understand some of the weird, anxious energy behind this stanza if we think of the phrase that Milton uses here: the phrase "Infant God."

如果我们想一下这些句子，也许能够明白，这一段中古怪和焦急的心情,弥尔顿在这用到“圣婴“这个词语“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.06.27

This will be important to try and understand the French revolution, La Revolution francaise, that there's a difference between absolutism and despotism.

这个观点对于尝试理解法国大革命很重要,绝对主义和专制主义是有区别的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"Now I understand that some might be skeptical of this plan.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

That's really beyond what I'll be asking you understand for the course but you can understand that if you read it, I'm sure.

这些内容超过了,要求你们在课堂上要了解的内容,不过你可以在书中进一步理解

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Because we think once we understand how they work, we could be able to manipulate the mosquito genetically and convert mosquitoes that can transmit malaria into mosquitoes that cannot transmit malaria."

VOA: special.2009.12.22

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

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Sometimes,financial news can be hard to understand.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

You understand that it is, or might be, but listen." We all listened.

不用再说了，你一定理解，或者也许，可是听着！“我们都听着。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"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

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

Manber says the results must be independently replicated, and scientists need to better understand the mechanisms of how acupuncture therapy works.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

you gonna be transparent and explainning to people what you need done, because no one can understand completely what you are, as the surgeon, thinking.

同时还需要公正公平地,向周围的人们解释你希望做些什么，因为你的队友并不能,一开始就完全地明白，你作为外科医生时的想法。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

That's the magic of movie making. It was a lot easier to understand than I ever thought it would be.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Very, very important, of course, to be able to understand that.

最终会得到什么状态，当然，理解这些是非常非常重要的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Supkin goes on to say that he doesn't understand why the author was even chosen to be the face of the new station.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

So, we have to choose foods, we have to navigate around the world, we have to recognize objects, we have to be able to understand physical interactions.

所以我们要选择食物，要寻找方向，要认识物件，要能够理解物理相互作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We must be prepared to change the minds of our people and educate them to understand where do we want to take this country to, not through violence."

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

The readings will be a mix between things that'll be quite easy for you to understand, things from the popular media, etc., and then some more sophisticated publications from scientific journals.

材料涵盖面很广,这样更有助于你们理解,比如一些大众读物,和一些比较艰深的学术期刊上的文章

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The city and soul analogy could be seen then as an attempt to understand how societies reproduce themselves, and how they shape citizens who again in turn shape the societies in which they inhabit.

城市与灵魂的比拟,可以视为是尝试了解,社会如何自我复制，及形塑公民,后者相对地,也在形塑他们所居住的社会。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选