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

VOA: special.2009.10.16

In other words, It would be an extraordinary thing not to understand, Heiddeger is saying.

换句话说，如果不去理解是很了不起的，海德格尔这样说。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A little indirect but not so indirect that is difficult to understand. You should use this often.

有一点委婉，但不至于委婉到让人难以理解。应当尽量多使用这种句型。

Why don't 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But Miz Goodall believed that to understand animal behavior, the observer had to see the animals as individuals, not as interchangeable objects.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

And it requires us to understand history not in moral terms, such as "good" and "evil," but rather in aesthetic terms.

它需要我们,不是以道德层面去理解历史，去判断好坏“,而是要从审美的角度去看。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I knew he did not understand, but like me,he took it to mean that I meant no harm.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

We can't help understanding. We always already understand, which has nothing to do again with whether or not we're right or wrong.

我们控制不住地去理解，我们总是已经理解了，这与对错无关。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I did not understand. "But,Dupin," I said, "why did you go to the trouble of replacing the letter?

VOA: special.2009.12.26

And I also wanted you to identify why, it's also important to understand why we have these trends, not just to memorize the trend itself.

而且我还需要大家判断原因是什么，这很重要，对于我们理解,为什么有这些规律，仅仅记住这些规律是不够的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

If your friend does not seem to understand how painful your broken heart is, you may ask her to have a heart.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

What we recommend is you use those notes to take your own annotations to help you understand what's going on, but we're not going to provide class notes.

我们的建议是,你用那些笔记去做你自己的注释,从而帮助你理解在学什么，然而我们不会提供课堂笔记。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"Germont and his policemen could not find the letter, because they did not try to understand the mind of the man who stole it.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

If you want to understand whether compounds form or not look only at the valence shell.

如果你想理解化合物是否形成,而不仅仅只是看看价层。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.11.08

So you've got to understand when it's okay and when it's not okay.

你必须得知道,什么时候可以,什么时候不可以

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"Come on." she says. "You do not need to be a rocket scientist to understand this."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

We're not going to talk about those details in the class here; I want you to sort of understand this really at the level that I've described it here.

我们课上不会讨论太多细节,我希望你们的理解能达到,我所讲到的水平就好

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

She could not understand why he killed the birds he seemed to like so much.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Trying to understand, not just on the cognitive level of the research, but also to experience on the visceral emotional level, what it really means to give ourselves the permission to be human.

希望你们理解，不只是在研究的认知层面上，还要在内心情感层面上去体会，准许自己为人的真正含义。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.06.27

If you get asked about these readings, as you will on the exams, we're not going to be picky, and we're not expecting you to remember details, and not expecting you to understand concepts that you can't just grasp from the readings themselves.

如果到考试的时候,碰到这方面的问题,放心,我们不会太苛刻的,我们不指望你们记住具体的细节,也没想强迫你们去理解,仅从材料本身无法获得的思想

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So they feel young people will not understand what he was attempting to do.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

So you're going to figure out what happens in this story very generally, well not very generally, but in the particular case actually on the homework assignment, but I want you to understand that there's this much more general story underlying this, and this is a pretty good model of a lot of markets.

所以你们将找出,这样的例子里通常会发生了什么,也说不上太通常,只是在特定情况下,这个家庭作业中,但我想让你们明白,在这例子具有普遍性,且这对很多市场来说都是很好的模型

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Robert E.Lee could not understand why the Union force had returned to Chancellorsville.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

By tradition, they divide by 360, not 365, and so you understand that dealers of Treasury bills tend to quote "discounts."

习惯上他们除以360,而不是365,国库券的经销商,习惯于谈论"贴现"

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"When I was reared in the British West Indies my grandmother used to always tell me, you may not be loved by certain forces in a society and you have to understand why.

VOA: special.2011.03.20

So it's important, in particular, to understand that from the physicalist's point of view, the mind is not the brain.

因此,从物理主义的,角度理解这一点尤为重要,心灵并不是大脑

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

You got to be a farmer to understand these things-- not everything that you try works.

你要成为一位农民就必须理解,你所从事事业的方方面面

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Why? It's a good question, it's not something that economists seem to understand very well.

至于原因是什么，的确值得研究，即使是经济学家，也并不见得完全明白。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选