最后，它强调了这种系统的能源转换作用。

Eventually, the energy-transforming role of such a system was emphasized.

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一旦与冰架脱离，这些冰山就会受到南极洲附近的洋流和季风系统的作用，并开始漂移。人们可以在南极洲较暗淡的冰山群中找到这些散落的冰山。

Once detached from the ice shelf, these bergs drift in the currents and wind systems surrounding Antarctica and can be found scattered among Antarctica's less colorful icebergs.

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他在使用一种危险的药物——这种药物很快作用于中枢神经系统。

He's taking a dangerous drug: it acts very fast on the central nervous system.

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So what they do is, they're describing how these thermodynamic properties change, in terms of only state functions and state variables.

他们的作用是描述,随着状态函数和状态变量的变化，系统的热力性质如何变化。

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Normally, we do these things to keep an equilibrium among the different systems of the unconscious, but sometimes it doesn't work.

一般来说，我们会运用这些机制,去维持无意识系统的平衡，但有时防御机制也会不起作用。

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All of the molecules are called hormones, so a hormone is another name for a ligand that operates in this endocrine fashion.

这些分子都叫做激素,那么激素就是在内分泌系统中,起作用的配体的另一种叫法

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