But it was the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes who understood that chocolate could be a valuable investment.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

It's in that context that most of the observations we encounter in Russian formalism need to be understood.

我们要从形式角度去理解,俄国的形式主义者。

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If I can just have it there before me, that is a very difficult and derivative intellectual act, and it cannot be understood as primordial or primitive.

仅是面对着它，对于思维来说非常困难，并且这不能被理解为是原始的。

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Most understood that it would be his last speech.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

So it could be that they think that this is actually-- they haven't understood the experiment and they think this is a multi shot game, not a one shot game, good.

可能是这些人觉得这是,他们没有理解实验的目的,他们认为这是多次博弈而不是单次博弈

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President Obama is said to have stated that, while the past must be understood, he is not there to argue history - and that it is time to "move on" to confront today's challenges.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

It's to be understood that we have to think of them together.

我们只有把它们放在一起才能理解。

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I just like it or I just don't like it according to principles that can be understood as arising from the faculty of judgment and not from the faculty of the understanding, which is appetitive, and the faculty of reason, which is moral.

我只是根据原则来判断喜欢还是不喜欢,这也可以被理解为从判断力出发,而不是从本能的理解力，或是道德上的理性出发。

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