A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
理解
Understand
If you want to understand what is wrong with stupid people you must be one of them.
如果你想了解愚蠢的人出了什么问题,你必须成为他们中的一员。
Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
我们理解发动战争,但不是发动和平,或者至少是不自觉地发动和平。
I don't really understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.
我真的不明白为什么盯着别人的眼球是正常的。
To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.
要了解这个世界,了解一个人在这个世界上的位置,就得冒着被淹死的危险。
I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.
我不明白为什么人们认为戏剧比喜剧更难演。
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
如果我不能理解我朋友的沉默,我将永远无法理解他的话。
It is also important to understand that a hidden nature is not always an evil nature.
同样重要的是要明白,隐藏的本性并不总是邪恶的本性。
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
要理解一个名字,你必须了解它的特殊之处。
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
对那些什么都没发生过的人来说,无法理解事件的重要性。
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
大多数人都不明白为什么别人擤鼻子的方式和他们不一样。
You need to fall apart once in a while before you understand how you best fit together.
你需要偶尔崩溃一下,才会明白如何才能最好地相处。
More countries have understood that woman's equality is a prerequisite for development.
越来越多的国家认识到妇女平等是发展的先决条件。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
任何一个成年人,只要他认为自己像过去的父母和老师一样,可以变得内省,唤起自己的青春去理解他面前的青春,他就迷失了。
Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.
你知道我喜欢你们节目的什么地方吗?即使是在真空中,我也能理解。
I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.
我一点也不觉得自己太瘦。我能理解当人们说,‘你的脸变得憔悴了’,但要让你的下半身变得合适,你的脸可能得有点憔悴。你选择你的战斗。
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
了解计算机的人是你最不愿意为不懂计算机的人编写文档的人。
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
要了解一个人的内心和思想,不是看他已经取得了什么,而是看他渴望什么。
I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager.
我觉得当你还是个十几岁的孩子的时候,你不明白工作到底是什么。