He wanted to make English easier to understand by listeners of VOA broadcasts whose native language was not English.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

OK, important -- if you are part of this group here think about it and make sure you understand that.

好的，这很重要，如果刚才你选了可逆过程,请好好想想并且保证已经理解了这个问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Still, it's worth reviewing these questions to make sure that we completely understand how to use this pattern.

但是，我们还是要回顾一下这个句型的要点，确保能够准确地理解这个句型的用法。

Who 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The slower speed is combined with an extra effort to make the writing easy to understand.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Divide and conquer to make our programs modular so we can write them a little piece at a time and understand them a little piece at a time.

我们把程序分解为模块逐个击破,以便我们能一次写一小段,一次理解一点儿，现在我觉得。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Something was ready to explode inside of her because she could not make people understand her.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

In particular, I want to develop and make sure we all understand, what are the ingredients of a game?

就是我希望大家都够理解,博弈的要素有哪些

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

He felt he had to make citizens understand why such laws were necessary.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Understand it through research as well as through the search-- through introspection, and then make the best use of it.

通过研究，探究-,通过内省来理解它，然后好好地利用。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

They should make sure they understand how and when to take their medicines.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

And the final point I want to make today, and this is very, very important, so make sure that you do understand this.

而今天我要强调的最后一点，也是非常，非常重要的一点，因此请务必真正理解它。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Teachers need to make sure students understand the uses and rules of language.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

We just take it for granted that what we're reading is completely within our own horizon and we don't make any effort at all to understand that which is fundamentally or at least in some ways different.

我们想当然地认为,我们读的东西都在自己的视域之中,并不必花费什么精力,去理解那些基本上不同或有些不同的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

She says she does not understand why weeks of meetings are needed in order for the U.S.government to make a decision.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

And interestingly, strangely, make of it what you will, the man who detonated that bomb, as I understand it, had studied Yeats at school in Leeds.

有趣而奇特的是，你们可以对此有自己的想法，制造爆炸的那个人，我觉得他肯定，在利兹大学学院里学过叶芝。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So make sure you understand what is the worst that can happen to your eyes and you can live with the worst."

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

I lecture about what I like to talk about, what's interesting, that'll hopefully make you understand what the big issues are in all of this.

我讲我愿意讲的,有意思的,希望这些能让你明白,这里面都有什么大事件

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"We have to make all South Africans understand that people living with HIV have not committed any crime."

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

These prophets delivered their oracles at critical junctures in Israel's history, in the nation's history, so their words are only going to make sense to us if we first understand the particular historical crises that they are addressing.

这些告知发表预言，总是在一些关键的转折期,在以色列历史中，国家的历史中，因此他们的话只对我们有意义,如果我们首先懂得某些特别的历史性危机,先知们所提到的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

(Recording) Bah says Guinea's ruling council should understand that women make up 52 percent of the population.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

One of the purposes of cell culture is to make many, many more cells under controlled conditions where I can understand what those cells are.

细胞培养的一个目的就是,在可控的环境下生成许许多多的细胞,从而让我能够研究这些细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Eldar says Mitchell's job is to make sure Israeli officials understand that message.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

That's a decision of the management of the company and we have to understand how they make that decision and what that means to people who are valuing stocks.

这是公司管理层的决定,我们必须了解他们,是如何做这个决定,以及这个决定对股评家的意义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You can't make life worse for clinicians. And you also have to understand the local needs and capabilities, which I think we see with m-health and emerging technologies there."

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

There's other disorders of language such as receptive aphasia where the person could speak very fluently but the words don't make any sense and they can't understand anybody else.

还有其他的语言障碍,诸如,接收性失语症,患有这种病的病人,语言流畅,但所讲话语没有任何意义,而他们也无法理解别人的话语

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We have two central imperatives: restore growth and create jobs, but make sure people understand we are going to have to bring those fiscal deficits down as growth recovers.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

So gone through all of these dimensions, because I want you to make sure that you could understand that when you are creating an entire course or an entire educational engagement, it is very important to think about both the explicit and the implicit purposes.

在分析完这些方面后，我希望你们,务必明白,在设计整个课程,或是教育参与时，考虑教育的表层目标和,深层目标是十分重要的。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

I completely failed to understand the depth of the kind of cultural transformation that we were going to have to make it we were ever going to deal with climate change."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

What about that case? Well, I think if we were doing a matter of physics, as it posed to--sort of psychology Psychologically we understand why, losing weight might make a real difference about how you feel about yourself.

这个案例该如何解释，我认为，如果我们在研究物理问题，或者，心理学问题,从心理学的角度我们明白原因，减肥可以让你,自己感觉非常不一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

To use an ancient expression from the 1970's, which only John and I will appreciate, it's really hard to grok what that code is doing, to understand what it's trying to make happen.

我和约翰都会同意，70年代的一句话来概括，那就是很难理解编码的内容，以及它想要完成的工作。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选