"We need to understand that the decisions that the president faces on Afghanistan are some of the most important he may face in his presidency about how we go forward there.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Again, you probably didn't come expecting to hear about farming, but farming is where the food starts and we need to understand that world.

同样地,你们可能没听说过农业,农业是食品的起点,我们需要了解这个领域

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Something that you need other people to understand needs to happen.

你需要其他人明白这些事必定会发生。

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They say that you do not need to be extremely intelligent to understand something.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

To understand that new beginning, we need to look at the differences between patriarchal religion, and the new Yahwism.

为了理解这种全新开始，我们必须看看,先祖宗教与新的耶和华崇拜之间的不同。

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He hoped he had made the country understand one thing: the great need to forget hatred and bitterness in the difficult time of re-building that would follow the war.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

You need to be able to read that code and understand it as well as write your own.

你需要有能力,像编写,解读并理解那些代码。

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"There is no question about that. But we need to understand much more about that.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

But what you need to understand about the Greeks is that they don't eat a lot of meat.

但是你们需要理解的是,希腊人并不常食肉

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"For now it's like a honeymoon." "People come and see their products and IOM facilitated them to go to an expo in Jakarta and they made like 10 million rupiah in four days but they also need to understand how they can allocate that for their own promotion activities."

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

Now the question is "how does it expand" and "why is it so difficult for us to understand, accept, assimilate and live according to the fact that we can make a difference, if we understand that what we need to understand is how change happens.

问题是“它如何扩大“,以及为什么我们难以理解，我们能够做出改变这个事实,并接受，被同化以及据此生活，如果我们能了解我们需要理解的,是改变如何发生。

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Well of course it's an important value to have in general that in order to be good neighbors in the world we need to understand it, we need to-- if we're going to be good citizens in the world we have to know what other people are doing and what's affecting us.

总的来说,它的重要之处在于,为了成为世界上其他国家的好邻居,我们要懂得,如果要成为世界上的一个好公民的话,我们得知道其他国家的人在做什么,是什么在影响我们

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And that means we need to understand at least a little bit about the Greco-Roman world.

所以这意味着我们需要,至少了解一点古希腊罗马时代的知识。

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We'll talk about some chemistry today, what DNA molecules are like, why they have the behavior that they do, and you need to understand this in order to understand how you manipulate DNA.

今天我们会谈到一些化学结构,比如DNA分子的形态,它们为什么会以这种形态存在,你必须先掌握这些,才能理解如何操控DNA

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In other words, to understand and cope with the problems that we all face, we all need to know and to grapple with the Western experience.

换句话说,为了理解并解决我们所面对的问题,我们必须了解并掌握西方文明的经验

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Another thing that you need to understand about these farms, if you're going to grasp their significance for the society that will come, is that they are small, really small.

关于这些农场,另一点要搞清楚的是,如果你要理解它们,所带来的社会意义,那是很细微和缓慢的

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