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

VOA: special.2009.10.16

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

But I was a really good programmer and I wanted to understand the consumer side of the Internet.

但我是个很好的程序设计师,我想了解互联网关于消费者的一面。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

He studied more than two hundred echidna shelters to understand where they like to hide and how often they change homes.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

From moment to moment, language changes, but if we're to understand it as language we have to honor its simultaneity.

语言无时无刻不在变化，但是如果我们要理解它,我们就必须尊重它的同时性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"The ambiguity that's in those answers is very,very difficult for humans to understand, never mind a computer to understand.

VOA: special.2011.02.28

The thing to understand about Muslim community in comparison to other communities is that we don't have students that fit one specific background.

穆斯林社会与其他社会,相比不同的地方是,我们的学生都不是来自一样的背景。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Prison spokesman Mark Vernarelli says most teens who visit come to understand what even one bad decision can mean.

VOA: special.2010.11.11

So allow me to put this up on the screen now, which you're now qualified to understand.

所以请允许我把这个放到屏幕上，现在你们可以理解了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

She shows how Darwin came to understand that these island animals had differences, developed over time, that helped them survive.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

And there's some other ideas like that where we step back and really try to understand these investors and hopefully partners with entrepreneurs.

还有些其他观点，比如我们应该如何,退一步来真正试着去理解这些投资者,然后充满希望地与企业家合作。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

MAGGIE: "Mom,you have to leave her alone." DAPHNE: "Fine,but I just want you girls to understand something about motherhood.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Today,the solution to the problem is so common that it is difficult to understand that there was a problem at all.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

I don't expect you'll all immediately grab it, but you will need to understand it before the quiz comes along.

我不期望你们马上就能掌握，但是你们需要在,考试前弄懂它。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Miz Cheek says the health care and finance industries are known for using language that is hard to understand.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

But still, it's crucial to understand, doing the readings is an important part of learning what this course has to offer.

但仍旧，它很难理解，做课外阅读是学习很重要的一部分,对于这门课所提供给你们的内容而言。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The show's creators studied the children they were targeting very carefully to understand how to best keep them entertained -- and learning.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

Now incidentally, in a for-profit corporation-- this is how to understand this, this is a concept that is enshrined in law.

顺便提一下,在一家盈利性公司中,我们需要这样理解,这是个在法律中明文昭示的概念

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

The modern state, as we have come to understand it, is based upon the separation of civil society from governing authority.

我们所了解的现代国家，是根据,区隔公民社会与统治当局的角度来看。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And he continued to say them. Readers began to understand that America had a great new poetic voice.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

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

To understand the excitement it caused, you must understand the value of that much money at the time.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

It's important to understand that clearly something very strange has happened here.

清楚地理解这个很重要,一些很奇怪的东西发生在这里了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

After a number of experimental geodesic domes were built, industry began to understand the value of the design.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

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

"When they were born, especially my oldest, I thought I really want my kids to understand their heritage.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

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

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Now because it is so important to understand how the neurons present the information, ? let me go into a bit more detail. Ok?

既然要理解,神经元传递信息是如此重要，我来更加详细地解释一下，好吧？

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