Well, you might say surely there could be creatures that would want to live forever, that would enjoy an eternal existence.

你们也许会说一定存在某种生物,会希望永远活下去，会享受一种永恒的存在。

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That's one of the beauties of proteins as working molecules is that their structure can be changed by subtle means.

蛋白质作为一种生物活性分子,其优势之一是,能够通过精细的方法改变其结构

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Now the hope--the hope is that someday there will be biological measure of what people are eating.

现在的希望是,某一天会有一种生物学手段,可用于研究人们吃什么

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He is not a kind of socio-biologist of politics, although he sometimes appears this way when he says that man is a political animal.

他并不是一种政治学的社会生物学家，但他有时的确显得像,尤其是当他说到人类是政治动物时。

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Some have even argued that there is an intuitive biology, a common-sense biological understanding of the world that's separate from your understanding of people and physics.

有些人甚至认为,大脑中存在着一个直觉生物学模块,这是一种与所具有的人类及物理学知识,并不相同的常识性生物学知识

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Following a transformation the study of which is not the concern of the social sciences but rather of biology and psychology, a crossing over came about from a stage where nothing had a meaning to another where everything possessed it.

这门学科并不属社会科学的范畴,而是属于生物学，心理学，此种转变是一种跨越，从一个什么都没有意义的时代到,一个每样东西都能表达的时代的。

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That seems to me to be some horrible penalty you've imposed on me, that you've reduced me from being a human being, able to engage in the full range of reflection, and simply turned me into something like a rat.

更像是,强加在我身上的酷刑，我本来是一个人，能进行各种反思，却被变成一种老鼠般的生物。

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It's a biological system that you've engineered from taking cells from one organism and cloning them and developing a whole other organism.

所谓生物系统的工程化,就是从一种生物体内中取出细胞并克隆,将它们培养成为另一个有机整体

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Botox is an injection of a molecule, or a complex molecule but a molecule, so in what ways would that be Biomedical Engineering?

肉毒杆菌素是一种注射用分子,或者说是一种复杂的分子,但它只是一种分子,它与生物医学工程有怎样的联系呢

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And, in particular, I want to lead off the class with an idea that the Nobel Prize winning biologist, Francis Crick, described as "The Astonishing Hypothesis."

我想先提到一种观点,这种观点的提出者是位诺贝尔奖得主,生物学家,弗兰西斯·克里克,他将这种观点称为"惊人的假说"

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It's another example of Biomedical Engineering technology that allows us to look at what's happening inside an individual, a patient, in a totally different way than we were before.

这不失为是生物医学工程的另一个例子,它让我们以一种全新的方式,得以了解,病人身体内部发生了什么

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One thing it's important for is clever developmental psychologists have used habituation as a way to study people, creatures who can't talk like nonhuman animals, and young babies.

原因之一就是,聪明的发展心理学家们将习惯化,作为研究人类，研究诸如非人类动物或是婴儿这样,无法进行言语表达的生物，的一种方式。

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It's the sort of thing that we can put on a scale and prod with a stick and the biologists can study, presumably made up of various kinds of molecules, atoms and so forth. So we've got the body.

这是一种我们可以称重,可被棍打,可被生物学家研究的东西,想必是由不计其数的分子,原子等构成,于是我们有了肉体

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Well let's take a step back for a minute; that's one way of looking at Biomedical Engineering, by looking at sort of the things that you know about that have been the result of the work of biomedical engineers and talk more generally.

好的,话说回来,了解生物医学工程的一种方法就是,通过看一些你们熟悉的东西,它们同时也是,生物医学工程的研究成果,并对它们做一般意义上的讲解

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To the broody hen, the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not utterly fascinating and precious and never to be too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.

对母鸡来说，这个概念可能看起来荒谬,世界上有一种生物,对一窝鸡蛋,着迷，觉得弥足珍贵,对她而言，永远不觉得,孵蛋时间太长。

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This involves mechanisms that are still being understood, but if you've studied some biology or read about this you've heard about the protein complex called Dicer.

人们仍然不太了解这其中的机制,但如果你学过一些生物学,或者读到过有关内容,你会听说过一种,叫做Dicer的蛋白质复合体

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This gives you a biological mechanism for cutting, using restriction enzymes, and then you denature so that it falls apart, and then you renature so that it comes back together.

这是一种切割DNA的生物机制,用限制性内切酶,改变DNA的性质让它打开,然后让它合起来恢复它的性质

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Here's another - that's a biological way of cloning it.

这里有另一种--,是一种克隆DNA的生物方法

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You add a special DNA polymerase called Taq polymerase And Taq polymerase is a polymerase that was identified, a DNA polymerase that was identified from an organism that lives in regions of the earth that are constantly at high temperature.

然后你加进一种特殊的,被称为Taq的DNA聚合酶,Taq聚合酶是已被鉴别出的聚合酶,这种DNA聚合酶是从一种生活在,地球上某些常年高温的区域中的,生物体内发现的

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