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 think this is President Obama's understanding, also at least as far as I understand from the speeches that he gave when he was a candidate is that we understand the importance of maintaining the integrity of faith communities, they could hire who they want to hire using the wrong resources.

我认为这是总统奥巴马的理解，也至少是我目前,从他作为候选人时所做的演讲中理解的,是我们理解,保持信仰团体完整的重要性，他们可以雇佣任何想要雇佣的人,利用错误的资源。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But you know, I understand it's a challenge when you're coming from a language that doesn't have any concept of an article.

但是，我能够理解当你的母语没有冠词的概念时，它将是一个挑战。

经常犯的失误 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Twenty-one nations around the world recently joined forces to better understand and prevent greenhouse gas emissions from farms.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

In this mode either the students can self-study, Work on their own, or often Prof. Perdue will use These materials in the classroom and use them to Launch a larger discussion about what the students understand from these materials.

在这种模式下，学生可以自学，或者Peter，Perdue教授也经常拿这些,当作课堂讨论的材料,激发大家的讨论,看学生从中学到了什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"The most important thing from my perspective is making sure the American people understand we don't have two sets of rules here.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

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

She helped the family understand the importance of the HeLa cells and accept that the scientific community has gained so much from their use.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

But we understand that what happens in the church part of the Catholic Church might be different from what happens in the basketball gem that the Catholic church builds.

但我们知道,在天主教的教堂中所发生的,可能不同于,在天主教会建造的,篮球场上发生的事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Brown could not understand the fear that kept the slaves from fighting for their freedom.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

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

They did not yet understand that they were seeing the problem from the opposite direction.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

And this suggests that the ability to learn language and understand language is to some extent separate from these other aspects of mental life.

这表明学习语言和理解语言的能力,在某种程度上是独立于,其他方面的心理活动的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Scientists study pieces of glacier to understand weather patterns from thousands of years ago.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

So it is very hard to understand P's silence in this regard, if it stems entirely from the post-exilic, priestly circles.

很难理解P资源在这一方面的缄默，如果它来源于流放后时期，牧师圈子。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"We've actually visited these farms to see exactly where everything comes from and the process, so you can understand it and explain it better to the clientele."

VOA: special.2009.04.10

The power that the Lady claims for herself as a virgin is titanic, and it allows us to understand, I think, why she has slipped from her discussion of married chastity - to this new discussion of what seems to be -- or what she claims is -- virginity.

女士宣称作为一个处女所拥有的力量是巨大的，那让我们明白，为什么她从关于婚姻贞节的讨论,转到这个新的讨论-,看上去--或者是她所说的--童贞。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But the process has helped him better understand where he came from.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

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

"And,now the policy of the Obama administration is different from the Bush administration and the people themselves in Pakistan understand they have to fight the militancy.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

The final and the fifth premise is an important one; is a philosophical one but one I want to introduce at the beginning of the course so that you understand where I am coming from, where this course is coming from-- because many people say, "Ok, so happiness is important.

最后也是第五个前提很重要;,是一个哲学前提,但我想在课程开始时介绍,你们好理解我讲课的起源，这门课程的来源-,因为很多人说，好的，快乐是重要的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He says his fellow Democrats will win in November, if the American people better understand how they will benefit from the new health care reform law.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

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

"Trying to understand humans, what we are and where we come from."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

But now, hopefully, we understand where that comes from, why it is that we use the shorthand notation.

但是现在希望我们明白,那是从哪来的，我们为什么要用简化形式。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

At The Rockefeller University in New York, she is currently studying how skin forms from precursor stem cells, looking for clues that could help researchers understand how defective stem cells can cause cancers and other disorders.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Now,I understand that probably the majority of scholars would say,"No. It comes from a later period."

现在大多数学者会说,“不，它形成于更晚的时期“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The president says Congress must put politics aside, and understand that America has the ability to handle detainee cases - from those easily transferred to civilian courts, to those considered a severe threat who for one reason or another cannot be prosecuted.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

In order to understand probability, you have to take things as coming from a random event and people don't clearly have that in their mind from an intuitive standpoint.

为了理解概率,你要把事件想象成是随机发生的,但人们没有那样,清晰直观的认识

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

How are we to understand Socrates' claim that the pursuit of justice requires him ? to turn away from public to private life?

我们如何理解苏格拉底声称说,追求正义让他,从公共转向个人的生活？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选