"Not everyone is Christian. But I would hope that most people who celebrate Christmas in any form understand its origins.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

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

A little indirect but not so indirect that is difficult to understand. You should use this often.

有一点委婉，但不至于委婉到让人难以理解。应当尽量多使用这种句型。

Why don't 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But Miz Goodall believed that to understand animal behavior, the observer had to see the animals as individuals, not as interchangeable objects.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

What we recommend is you use those notes to take your own annotations to help you understand what's going on, but we're not going to provide class notes.

我们的建议是,你用那些笔记去做你自己的注释,从而帮助你理解在学什么，然而我们不会提供课堂笔记。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I knew he did not understand, but like me,he took it to mean that I meant no harm.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

Maybe they're not- Maybe they're in publishing or some other field but they understand finance and a lot of them are directly in finance.

也许他们不是...,也许一些人是从事出版业的,或是其他的行业的,但是他们都懂金融,而且他们中很多人直接从事金融业

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I did not understand. "But,Dupin," I said, "why did you go to the trouble of replacing the letter?

VOA: special.2009.12.26

Trying to understand, not just on the cognitive level of the research, but also to experience on the visceral emotional level, what it really means to give ourselves the permission to be human.

希望你们理解，不只是在研究的认知层面上，还要在内心情感层面上去体会，准许自己为人的真正含义。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But he did not have them published, and admitted that he did not understand her poetry.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

So the game is not just to somehow or other get the solution to the problem set but to fully understand how it's done, and the TAs will be there to help you.

所以,这个过程不仅仅是,通过某种方式解出题目,还要全面理解解题的过程,助教会帮你们的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It helps them better understand not only how dinosaurs looked but also how they behaved.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

Again, the point today is not for you to understand in detail all these mechanisms but to understand how those basic concepts we talked about last time, basic concepts of cell communication if arranged in the right kinds of ways can lead to complex outcomes.

再说一次 今天的重点不是,要你理解这些机制的细节,而是借此理解上节课讲的基本概念,细胞通讯的基本概念如果安排得当,可以产生非常复杂的反应

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They are not only focusing on receiving money,money,money, but they also understand that they have potential within themselves to rebuild their lives."

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

So you're going to figure out what happens in this story very generally, well not very generally, but in the particular case actually on the homework assignment, but I want you to understand that there's this much more general story underlying this, and this is a pretty good model of a lot of markets.

所以你们将找出,这样的例子里通常会发生了什么,也说不上太通常,只是在特定情况下,这个家庭作业中,但我想让你们明白,在这例子具有普遍性,且这对很多市场来说都是很好的模型

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"It is always nice to get a little package on a Saturday but if it means not paying people properly or having to cut down, I will understand."

VOA: standard.2010.04.13

Maybe other principles of hermeneutics will place much more stress on innovation or novelty or difference, but you're not sure people can understand unless they share a great deal of common ground."

也许诠释学的其他原则更强调,创新，独树一帜，与众不同，但你不能保证人们都能理解,除非他们有很多相同之处“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"I would not get into specifics, but what I understand is that people who have been arrested are U.S nationals, but some of them of Pakistan origin, some of them of other descent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

But I do not believe that, objectives of crusaders were purely religious. I understand that , there were many many factors that pushed this campaign into the near east.

不过我不认为，十字军的目的是,完全宗教的，我觉得，有很多因素在背后推动,这个运动走向东方。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Does the Prime Minister not understand that the purpose of an inquiry is not just to produce a set of conclusions, but to allow the people of Britain to come to terms with a mistake made in their name,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

I think they sort of really understand that maybe sometimes they see things to them they don't quite understand what it is because it's not familiar to them, but it's sort connect to your own life.

我认为他们,知道有时候,自己看到一些事物不理解,是因为,对那些事物不熟悉，但他们与你的生活相联系。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

But that's not enough because computers at the end 1 of the day only understand 0s and 1s and what you and is clearly not a collection of 0s and 1s.

但是仅仅这样是不够的，计算机,最终只会认识0和,你现在得到的，c的文件显然不是0，1的合集。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I mean, you may not understand it with algebra before but some of these sorts of pictures have you seen before?

我是说可能代数部分你没看懂,但你们以前见过类似的图像吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选