When we understand ourselves better, when we identify ourselves, we are better able to identify with others.

当我们更了解自己时，当我们认识到自己时，我们就更能认识他人。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And then when we got to more of a cellular level, that we could actually understand how our body worked as low of a level as thinking about cells.

肺怎么工作，我们到了细胞的层面上研究问题,从细胞的角度理解给我们身体,怎么工作就更加有趣了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

When our political opponent is being ironic about our views we understand the irony perfectly well. We're used to it, we have accommodated ourselves to it, and of course it's the same in reverse.

当政敌讽刺我们的观点,我们能够充分的理解这个讽刺，我们已经习惯这点了,是我们使自己习惯这点的，当然，反之亦然。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But Hobbes lived at a time when the modern system of European states even as we understand them today, was just beginning to emerge.

霍布斯生活在一个时代,这个时代中，现代欧洲国家,就像我们今天理解的这样，已经快要出现了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We don't quite clearly understand exactly what that means and who and exactly when.

实际上我们并不十分清楚这学派意味着什么,学派里的谁写的这些书，什么时候写的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

It's important... I think this is the crucial point... that when we say a person is just a body, we don't understand that to mean... the physicalist doesn't mean that as-- a person is just any old body.

有个重要的一点...,我觉得这是最关键的一点,就是当我们说人只是个肉体时,我们不知道这意味着...,物理主义的意思不是...,人只是随随便便的某种肉体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We're trying to understand exactly what changes in your brain when you learn and how those changes persist over time to support memory. And one thing that we know which helps explain why some things are easier to remember than other is that learning is not a unitary process.

我们一直都想查明，学习的时候，大脑到底发生了什么变化，这些变化是如何长时间控制记忆的,我们都知道，学习的过程不是一元化的,这就是为什么有的东西好记，有的东西难记。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

It is a declaration of absolute interdependency among the things that we understand in binary terms but that we take somehow one to be causative of the other when we think about them.

这是在宣布事物之间的绝对的相互性,我们能在二元关系上理解这些事,但是我们惯常于把一个是当成另一个的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We think we understand when we see the past from a historical standpoint, i.e., place ourselves in the historical situation and seek to reconstruct the historical horizon.

当我们从历史的角度看待过去，我们以为自己理解，也就是说，把自己放在历史的条件下,重新构建历史的视角。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选