What happens in the intestine is that food gets broken down into constituent molecules, some of those molecules are absorbed into our bodies.

在肠道中,食物必须分解成基本的组成分子,其中一些分子才能被我们的身体吸收

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But it does mean that this decentralization is an essential part of who they thought they were.

但是这就意味着地方分权,是他们自我认知的基本组成部分

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Dualist, of course, because there's two basic components-- the body and the soul.

之所以是二元论,因为它由两个基本组成部分,肉体和灵魂

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For example, in terms of the atomic theory of matter, at the time at the turn of the Century, the understanding was that atoms were the most basic constituent of matter, meaning you couldn't break atoms up into anything smaller - that was it, you're done.

例如在原子理论中,在19，20世纪之交的时候,人们认为原子是,组成物质的最基本粒子,也就是说你不能,把原子再分割了,就这样了。

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I do want to talk about one important subject which you might not have thought too much about and that's lipids, because lipids are so important to the structure of the body because they make up the membranes that form the cells that are the fundamental units.

我的确想要讨论一个重要的主题,这个主题也许你们都没有深入思考过,那就是关于脂类的问题,脂类对身体结构形成十分重要,它是组成细胞膜的基本单位,而细胞膜能够维持细胞形态

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So, what I want to do is start off small, with the smallest interesting part of the brain and then get bigger and bigger and bigger talk about how the small part of the brain, the neurons, the basic building blocks of thought, combine to other mental structures and into different subparts of the brain and finally to the whole thing.

我将从细微入手,从大脑最细微的部分开始,然后逐步扩大,来谈谈大脑的基本单元,也就是神经元,也是思考的基本构造,是如何组成其他心理结构的,又是如何形成不同脑组织的,最终构建出了整个的大脑

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Even if there is an immortal soul-- Sorry. Even if there is a non-physical soul that's part of me, we don't yet have any reason to believe that it's one of the fundamental building blocks that were being recycled.

即使灵魂是不灭的,不对,即使有个非现实的灵魂是我的一部分,我们并没有任何理由去相信,灵魂是被循环利用的,基本组成部分之一

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