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

So people started turning these machines they developed on themselves to try to understand how they worked.

人们开始利用自己发明的器械研究人体,试图了解其运作方式

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

and this whole thing, it's very important to understand how that works.

了解这整个东西如何运作是非常重要的。

想学音乐吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

She says it is important to understand how appearance communicates personality.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

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？

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

And I even have a section on what I call 'designer snowflakes,' which is us growing crystals in the lab,trying to understand how the physics works."

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

He was very interested in economics, and he wanted to understand how the social structures of capitalism and the economic structures of capitalism impinged upon the way personalities were formed.

其中，他对经济学又颇有研究，一直致力于解析,资本主义的社会结构,和经济架构如何改变一个人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"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

I want to try to understand in that lecture-- help us to understand how this works and how we're getting solutions--possible solutions to these problems.

在那节课我会,帮助大家了解这是如何发挥作用的,以及我们是如何找到,可行性方案来解决目前的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But he also said additional research is needed to better understand how the vaccine reduced the risk in those individuals.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

One, developing ways to understand how humans work better, how human physiology operates, and second, developing new approaches for replacing function in people when they're sick.

一,开发新方法更好的了解身体的运作,以及生理过程是怎样发生的,二,当人机体发生病变时,找到方法替代病变器官的功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

And what they did was they wanted to understand how much do genes matter.

这个研究是关于,基因的重要性。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"I don't understand. How can they have no record of her being there." "There has to be some explanation."

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Now,it's very important to understand how bizarre this proposal would be.

要理解这个建议是多么怪诞,明白这点是非常重要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They say it will help scientists better understand how to protect long-beaked echidnas and the areas where they live.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

When you look at the risk of consequences from metabolic syndrome in the population, you have to know a person's race to some extent to understand how high their risk really is.

如果想要考察某人群,患代谢综合征的风险,就要知道一定的种族信息,这样才能较准确地知道他们的患病风险度

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

They are hoping to learn more about dark matter in an effort to better understand how the universe expands and shrinks.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

The city and soul analogy could be seen then as an attempt to understand how societies reproduce themselves, and how they shape citizens who again in turn shape the societies in which they inhabit.

城市与灵魂的比拟,可以视为是尝试了解,社会如何自我复制，及形塑公民,后者相对地,也在形塑他们所居住的社会。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

All of these three things, in my judgment, are necessary to understand how the polis came into being, how it came to be what it was, and how it came to fulfill and believe in these ideas that I have just been telling you about.

所有这三个事情,在我看来,对于了解城邦是如何产生,如何成型,以及如何实现,和验证那些我刚刚,告诉你们的理念,是不可或缺的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It uses objects from the museum's collection to show how Darwin helped us understand the history of life on Earth.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

I certainly didn't understand how they even connected really to chemical reactions, much less other disciplines that I was interested in.

它们这么重要,我并不理解这些分子是什么，我也不知道它们。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"I mean it's hard to even understand how biology was a science as we would recognize it today.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

They might articulate a need or a desire, but what we have to do is understand all the technology ingredients and how they're evolving.

他们可能会提出要求或是愿望，我们所要做的事情是搞懂,所有技术成分，以及它们如何演变。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

So,just being able to pick one of those up will help our visitors understand how difficult portability was about thirty years ago."

VOA: special.2011.02.15

He is exclusively concerned with fiction and how we read fiction, how we come to understand fiction, and how we determine the meaning of a work of fiction.

他只关注文学，以及我们怎样读文学，怎样来理解文学，怎样确定一部文学作品的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They could also learn how to prevent identity theft, how to understand their telephone bill, and even how to choose between competing cable television systems.

VOA: special.2011.06.24

And I wonder if you can articulate how you understand the people who object to your positions, and how you articulate their views in some of your responses?

我很好奇，您能否告诉我们您是怎样理解,那些反对您立场的人们的呢？,在您的回应中，您是怎样驳斥他们的观点的呢？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So the first question is, how do we understand the slippage here and more generally, what could poetry possibly have to do with virginity?

所以第一个问题是，我们怎么理解,更普遍来说，诗歌怎么能和童贞有关联？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选