The aim is neither to judge nor to force forgiveness, but rather to foster understanding.

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The simile sets out to establish the moral polarities between good and evil, but it then works almost systematically to undo that understanding.

这里的比喻开始创造出善与恶之间的,两极性，然而后来它又几乎自动的抹去了这种理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But as part of a more rigorous introduction to understanding how the machines work and writing programs at this lower level.

作为一种,理解电脑工作机制,和在低平台上编程的入门方法。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

You should be able to maybe print out a blank copy of those notes from the website not for memorizing them, but now just understanding how the photoelectric effect works.

你们应该可以从网站上打印一份,这些笔记中的空白的纸张,不仅仅是为了记忆，而且现在要理解,光电效应是如何工作的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

My understanding was he was found guilty but a lot to turn on the ambiguity of a sentence.

我猜他是被判有罪了,但这个案件却展现出了句子的模糊性

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But the crucial point for this view is that the proper metaphysical understanding of the mind is to think of it in nonphysical terms, nonmaterial terms.

但是这个观点的关键之处在于,从哲学角度对心灵的恰当理解,必须是在非物理的条件下去思考的,非物质的条件

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The thesis of 3.091, and this is where the chemistry comes in, is that electronic structure of the elements holds the key to the understanding, not just the chemical bonding, but the long range atomic order.

这是这门课的论点，这是化学的研究点，也就是元素的电子结构,那即是理解的关键，不只是化学键，还有长程的原子排序。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

That's part of the struggle, undoubtedly, but another part of the struggle is simply to reach some means, to break through to some means of understanding the thing that you're talking about.

这就是斗争的一部分，另一部分是去寻找某种方法，能让人们通过这种方法,理解所谈论的事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This way of teaching did not perhaps quite so much for a variety of reasons permeate public school literature teaching, but it was simply, as a result of Understanding Poetry, the way to go. It took time.

尽管这种教学方法可能并没有大范围被应用于,公立学校的文学专业，但是它的确符合教育的发展趋向，这也还得归功于《诗歌鉴赏》，它确实需要更多时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选