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

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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。

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They wanted to understand this phenomenon that "here you have a class, that's larger than Introduction to Economics".

他们对这一奇特现象非常好奇，“竟然有比经济学导论更热门的课程。

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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。

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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。

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Well, I'm not going to argue for and against that view-- just wanted to sketch it, so as to understand the arguments that turn on it.

我不会去主张或反对这个观点,只是想简述给你们,以便去理解那些在此基础上的论点

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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。

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Because they wanted to understand why.

因为他们想知道为什么。

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