The first function deals with recognizing a word, the second with understanding the word's context in a sentence, and the third lets us articulate the word by speaking.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

We can't help understanding. We always already understand, which has nothing to do again with whether or not we're right or wrong.

我们控制不住地去理解，我们总是已经理解了，这与对错无关。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But it shows you that with a little bit of understanding of quantization you can go a long way.

但它看起来,有一些量子化的含义,你可以研究研究。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Such appointments are permanent. Those hired with the understanding they will seek tenure are said to be "on the tenure track."

VOA: special.2009.04.09

In bridge building we're well advanced in understanding what are the problems with building bridges and how do we overcome them?

在桥梁建设中我们十分清楚地了解,在造桥的过程中会遇到什么问题,以及如何克服这些问题

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It is whispered into your ear with the understanding that you will not pass it on to others.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

For one thing, it has given us a richer understanding of certain learning mechanisms, particularly with regard to nonhumans.

一方面，行为主义使得我们能够,更加全面的理解某些学习机制，特别是非人类的学习机制。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

" Some one with both feet on the ground is a person with a good understanding of reality.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

It does deal with other places in terms of understanding about what was unique about American slavery, but it's basically about America.

这本书的确涉及到其他地区,尤其是在讲述美国奴隶史的特殊性时，但大部分内容还是以美国为主。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Visitors leave the great dam with an understanding of how difficult the project was.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

At the end of the day this is all about equipping you with skills and knowledge and understanding with which to take a problem, take a large data set maybe and actually produce something useful-- produce a project that is of interest to you.

下午放学后,就用学到的技能，知识和理解力来,解决问题，或者处理超大数据集,或制造一些有用的东西-,例如发起一个你们感兴趣的项目。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The aim is to share American music with the world and improve cross-cultural understanding.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

The vocabulary that we have to wrestle with for today's essay is taken in part from Jakobson's understanding of the relationship between metaphor and metonymy, and we will have more to say about that.

今天的论文中我们读来很费劲的词汇,一部分是从雅克布森,对暗喻和转喻的理解，我们将会在这方面讲更多。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And now with Antarctic science being really a global science and part of understanding how the world works, it is becoming really vital that everybody works together."

VOA: special.2009.06.03

And remember, in the passage that I read about Inverarity's escape, what she left with, as her final understanding.

记住，在我读过的关于Inverarity的逃脱的部分中，她留下的是她的最终思考。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"I've always loved working with the robots. And when I first started it was a challenge working with the robots, understanding how they worked and figuring them out.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

I want to share some of that with you so you can fast forward and get the understanding that took me much longer to get.

我想和你们分享一下心得,这样你们就能更快地进步,并理解我当初花了很久才理解的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"There is common understanding with the DPRK on the need to implement the 2005 joint statement and to resume the six-party process,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

So clear sense of your core competence and direction, intelligence and understanding not only with your own people are doing but what's going on in academia and in startups, and then the willingness to take some risk that would be what I'd say.

清楚的了解你的核心竞争力和方向，才干，并了解你的伙伴在做什么,以及学术环境和创业环境的发展，然后要有冒险的动力,这就是我要讲的。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

"We celebrate with you today, with a full understanding of what you have achieved and we are filled with joy in your success.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

It fits in well with the theme of this course about technology because in understanding what's happening with brokerages, our technology, the new information technology, is central.

这与我们这节课,有关技术的内容互相配合,因为了解经纪业发生了什么,新技术和新信息科技,对我们来说很重要

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"First,on our watch-listing procedures: did the government do everything it could have with the information it had, understanding that these procedures are several years old?

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

The ancients, he believes, operated with a defective understanding of human freedom.

他认为古人对,何为人的自由的理解是不完整的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"First of all,the president, the prime minister and their government are committed to building a modern state with a diversified economy, and they have the understanding and capacity to do it."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Now that seems to me a crucial understanding everything that he does That ending with the myth of the past is what he examines for the sake of articulating that.

现在对我来说很关键的是,去理解他做的一切,完成他对过去之谜探求的事业,也就是他为了阐明那一点所做的审视。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

I want to make you a richer person, a broader person, by instilling you with an unending deep and abiding understanding of classical music, so that's part of this, and not just here for Yale but for your life after Yale.

我希望你们成为更有内涵的人,心胸更加宽广的人,通过循循善诱,让你们体会到古典音乐的博大精深,这是一点,并不只在耶鲁大学,还有你以后的人生道路

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

They're insulated from understanding what the other is preoccupied with.

也无法理解,对方在做什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It seems to have something to do, I think, with academic understanding.

我认为,也许,这与学术理解有关

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And others would saying in addition to the traditional ideas of keeping these Jewish dietary laws involved, we should add an understanding based on the needs of the planet and the suffering of the animals that are potentially involved with our food resources.

另一些人可能会建议，除了,保持传统的,犹太饮食教规，我们应当理解,地球的需求和动物的痛苦,而这些都是与我们的食物来源有关系的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Okay. For those who have not seen a radian, it's just another way to measure angle with the understanding that a full circle, which we used to think is 360 degrees, So a radian is roughly 60 degrees.

我想告诉那些还不懂弧度制的同学,这是衡量角度的另一种方法,理解起来是这样的,对于一个整圆,也就是我们之前所说的360°,所以1弧度大约是60°

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选