Every time the Chromosome divides—every time one cell divides into two—pieces of the ends of the Chromosome, the telomere, get broken off.

当每次染色体分裂时——即当每次一个细胞分裂成两个时——染色体的尾部，也就是端区，就会发生断裂。

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So after each division, the telomeres get shorter and one of the things that may happen after a while is that pieces of the genes themselves get broken off the Chromosomes.

每次分裂后，端粒变短一段时间后可能发生的一件事是染色体上的基因片段会断裂。

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Supposing tiles are blown off, or walls sink or crack, or windows get broken—where's Toad?

假如瓦片被风刮掉了，或是墙陷下去了，裂了缝，或是窗户被打破了——托德在哪儿？

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When the rest of the country never sees the broken families and children cut adrift from addiction, then a pharmaceutical company can get off with a fine and a pat on the rump for years of dumping pain drugs like OxyContin into these rural communities.

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This is what happens when a city is cut off from the rest of the country by desert, developed by the Mob, built on broken get-rich-quick dreams and where visitors outnumber locals nearly 20 to one.

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