Understanding our own culture is necessary; if we do not, how can we understand others?

理解自己的文化是必须的；否则，我们怎么能理解别人的文化呢？

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I am a savage and I do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive.

我是一个野人，我理解不了那冒烟的铁马怎么会比我们用来维持生存才宰杀的水牛更重要。

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If we can understand how cancer works, we can counteract its action.

如果我们能弄清癌症是如何运作的，我们就能对抗它的行动。

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Because we think once we understand how they work, we could be able to manipulate the mosquito genetically and convert mosquitoes that can transmit malaria into mosquitoes that cannot transmit malaria."

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How does all this work? Brooks believes that he can understand it, as we'll try to explain, in psychoanalytic terms.

这些都是怎么实现的呢？，布鲁克斯确信自己可以，从精神分析的角度理解这些问题，我们马上要解释。

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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。

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How can we understand why Thorin Oakenshield has such a burning desire to find the lost treasures of the Dwarves and to reclaim their homeland?

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Mr. EICHER: We can't really understand the solar system and how it got going unless we can really understand the origins and the conditions that happened when the solar nebula, this cloud of gas and dust, contracted down and the star turned on and the planets got going.

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Only by knowing what people are actually doing online can we understand how things can go wrong.

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