When Ted was six we decided that he needed to know how to fasten and unfasten his seat belt.

泰德六岁时，我们决定让他知道怎样系和解他的安全带。

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He needed to know.

他需要好好想想。

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In this way he discovered he needed to know many more words.

通过这种方法他发现他需要懂得更多的词汇。

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But Abraham Lincoln taught himself what he needed to know.

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It's possible that he genuinely didn't know what to do, that he wasn't smart enough to understand that he needed to point to the other one.

有可能他是真的不知道该做些什么,他还不够聪明,无法理解他需要指向另一个物体

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Mr Wilson said he needed to know specifically what MLAs were prepared to accept, and he wanted to present a budget to the assembly as soon as possible.

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