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。

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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。

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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。

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I think what is important is that the Iraqi authorities and the Iraqi people have understood that they cannot let them [the insurgents to get away with this,".

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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。

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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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What is understood is that there is enormous potential behind quantum computers, he says.

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Most participants agreed that there is an important gap between what is understood by the scientific community and what is actually known by the general public on sustainable development issues.

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"It's not so much what the hospital, what the coroner, what the medical profession understand the situation to be - it is what is understood by the individuals giving the consent - the parents, " said Mr Cohen.

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