Nobody knows the meaning of every word, but good readers know how to understand words they don't know.

没有人知道每个单词的意思，但好的读者知道如何理解他们不认识的单词。

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The finding suggests that in the human brain, the right side is more important in voice recognition while the left is used to understand words.

这一发现表明，人的右脑对于声音识别来说显得更为重要，而左脑则用于理解听到的内容。

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I'd understood the words, but I didn't, as it were, understand the question.

我已经理解了这些词，但我似乎还不理解这个问题。

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Yet another sign is struggling to find the right words to express thoughts or understand what is being discussed.

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He doesn't understand the words that he's used, but boy! Did they produce a response!

对自己说的话，他毫无概念，唉，可悲的男孩呀！,但他说的话的确一石激起千层浪！

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If you are expressing an opinion, in other words, which differs radically from my own, I can't understand, according to Gadamer, whether or not you're being ironic.

换句话说，如果你在表达一个,与我所持观点彻底相反的观点时，葛达玛认为我并不能理解你是不是在讽刺。

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People understand words better than value curves, because a love of stories, intrigue and relationships is hard-wired in the human brain.

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Using the same techniques, Roitblat says, a computer can be made to understand words and phrases that can have more than one meaning.

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Rankin and her team focused on a a specific type of neurodegenerative disease called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, a group of disorders in which patients can experience behavioral symptoms such as personality changes, a loss of inhibition and social tact as well as language difficulties, such as an inability to understand words.

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