Only the deaf can understand how I felt when my dog obeyed my spoken command."

VOA: special.2009.11.08

And I wonder if you can articulate how you understand the people who object to your positions, and how you articulate their views in some of your responses?

我很好奇，您能否告诉我们您是怎样理解,那些反对您立场的人们的呢？,在您的回应中，您是怎样驳斥他们的观点的呢？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And actually, a question that might come up, I just explained, the sodium channel, you might say, well, how do potassium channels work then, because I can understand how you can filter something big out, but how do you filter out something small.

实际上，可能大家会问一个问题，我刚解释过，钠离子通道，你可以说，好吧，那么钾离子通道该如何起作用呢，因为我可以理解你是如何把大东西过滤掉的，但是你如何把小东西过滤掉呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"I doubt if you can understand how happy this modernizing has made me.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

I think they should actually show us a little bit more about how we can understand the organization of the things around us and within us as systems of signs.

我认为这个问题值得继续思考,我们怎样认识我们周围的事物？,我们怎样认识周围的符号系统。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

How come the market, in other words, m a disciple of free market, I can understand why the government messes up, s much harder to understand why the free market messes up.

为什么市场，换句话说，我信奉市场经济，I’,我能理解为何政府干预失败，但想了解，it’,为何市场经济失败就很难了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选