"But the amount of damage and destabilization in the country that we are starting to see - this is what the Americans do not understand."

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

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, what we want to do now is see if we can understand how this backscattering experiment worked. So we will do our own backscattering experiment.

希望现在能更简洁一点,好，我们现在,要做的就是看看,我们是否理解了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"I think that survey shows that, as minorities and women pursue a STEM career, they have to face a number of barriers along the pipeline (SAYING...) and what we need to do as a society is really understand what these roadblocks are."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

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

What we're going to do is simply use a language that helps us understand.

我们要做的就是,用一个语言来帮助我们理解。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

We have to understand the way in which what we do and say, what we write in our papers and articles, is grounded in theoretical premises which, if we don't come to terms with them, we will simply naively reproduce without being fully aware of how we're using them and how, indeed, they are using us.

我们所为，所说，和在论文中所写的内容，是以一些理论，为前提的，如果不接受这些理论，那我们就不过是天真地重复,根本不知道,我们是如何利用它们的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选