The purpose of verbal communication is to change the hearers cognitive contextual assumptions, and reach a maximal similarity between what is conveyed and what is understood.
言语交际的目的就是改变听话人的认知语境假设，实现所传递的话语信息与听话人理解结果之间的最大趋同。
My grandfather Ruby once told me that time is the most precious commodity; I never understood what he meant until 2002.
我的祖父鲁比曾对我说过，时间是最贵重的商品；直到2002年，我才明白他的意思。
What is still not fully understood, however, is why some trees resort to producing red pigments while others don't bother, and simply reveal their orange or yellow hues.
然而，至今仍不完全清楚，为什么有些树木倾向于制造红色素，而有些树木不去刻意制造色素，但还是会呈现出橙色或黄色。
If a student is able to teach somebody else what he's learnt from textbooks, it shows he's understood it well.
如果一个学生能够把课本上学到的知识教授给别人，这说明他很了解这些知识。
Beneath the din is a simple premise: if the other side knew the facts, if the other side really understood what was at stake, they would all surely agree.
在这些喧闹声中大家有一个共鸣，那就是：如果另一方了解事实，如果另一方真正了解危险所在，他们一定会同意我方的意见。
However, if popular site search phrases are unrelated to the nature of your site, then maybe people haven't understood what your site is actually about.
然而，如果搜索比较多的短语与你网站的性质无关，那么也许人们没有理解你网站是怎么一回事儿。
Most of us have never really understood what it is like to be hungry or want for a real necessity.
大多数人对像是饥饿或者缺少真正的必需品这些从来没有真实的理解。
When you get right down to it, communication in marriage is not about being understood by each other, communication is about handling what another person thinks and feels.
当你开始认真对待，你会发现婚姻中的沟通不是要让彼此明白对方，而是要去感觉对方的想法和感觉。
That is what I had been doing for 10 years -- it was how I understood -- so it was a natural impulse.
那是10年来我一直所做的——那是我所了解的方式——因此，它是一种天性使然。
But they don't understand that their help isn't always helpful; that sometimes what you want is simply to be heard and understood or given a vote of confidence that you can solve your own problems.
但是他们不明白他们的帮助未必有效；有时你所需要的仅仅是倾诉和理解以及一张信任票——相信你可以解决自己的问题。
"He has been provided with oxygen and he is conscious. He says he has understood what he is being accused of in the arrest warrant," lawyer Guenther Maull told reporters.
“他被进行了输氧，并且目前意识清醒。他说他明白他在该拘留状中被指控的罪名，”律师古恩瑟摩尔告诉记者。
And when they saw how much money had come from the orchard, they suddenly understood what the wise father had meant when he said, "There is gold hidden in the orchard." Dig for it, if you wish it.
他们从果园里得到这么多钱后，突然明白了聪明的父亲所说的“果园里藏有金子，想要就去挖吧”这句话的含义。
What I've never understood is how that can be.
我一直未能理解的是这是怎么做到的呢。
Not long ago, when his cat died, he cried and understood grief for the first time, but he knows he is difficult to live with because he cannot grasp what others are feeling.
不久前他的猫死了，为此他哭了一场，这是他第一次感受到悲痛。但是他知道，别人和他一起生活会很困难，因为他还是不能理解别人的感情。
It doesn't really matter how this is achieved. What matters is that the content is well-understood and visitors feel comfortable with the way they interact with the system.
这个是否达到了，实际上并不重要，重要的是内容是否被很好地理解了，而用户是否觉得他们与这个系统的交互非常舒服。
The direct link between alcohol and the liver is well understood - but what about the impact of alcohol on other organs?
毋庸置疑，酒精对人体肝脏的影响最为直接。但是，酒精对人体其他器官又有哪些危害呢？
While the effects of acute stress on hair are well understood, what isn’t as clear is how chronic or long-term stress affects hair loss.
我们可以理解这种剧烈的压力对头发的影响，但是不太清楚那种慢性或者长期的压力是如何影响脱发的。
This convergence may not be instantly discernible, because it is happening in many places at once and is often not understood for what it is.
两个世界的合一趋势或许不易发现，因为它正在同时发生于众多领域，且通常难以理解到底是怎么回事。
But what the alcohol myopia model does provide is a very intuitive and easily understood way of thinking about how alcohol affects us, for better and worse.
但酒精近视这一概念，对与我们理解酒精对我们的影响，无论是好是坏，都提供一种非常直觉的，易于理解的方式。
On the contrary, philosophy properly understood is what comes into being when one has achieved full recognition of a preexisting error.
相反，被适当地理解的哲学正是在，对前有的错误有了完整认知的时候所形成的。
But it is unlikely to pay for fundamental research in what is still an imperfectly understood field.
但是，为人们仍无法完全了解领域的基础研究买单是不太可能的。
The usage of online credit cards is well-understood and the function is integrated into many products, but include this pattern for now and see what changes or additions it leads to.
在线使用信用卡这个功能已经很成熟了，已经集成在许多产品中，但是我们目前采用这个模式并考虑它会导致哪些变化和扩展。
And then we calculate changes, the convention is understood with respect to what is the zero, right.
然后我们计算改变，这个约定就是用来规定零点的位置的。
And then we calculate changes, the convention is understood with respect to what is the zero, right.
然后我们计算改变，这个约定就是用来规定零点的位置的。
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