Vallombrosa literally means "shady valley," and I think it recalls Galileo's shady place, Valdarno, another valley.

瓦隆布罗萨字面上的意思是“成荫的村庄“,我认为这使人想起了伽利略阴暗的处所，另一个村子，瓦尔达诺。

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The "I wonder if" pattern, like it sounds, is used to express the fact that you don't completely know something.

I wonder if”句型，就像字面意思表达的一样，是用来表达你对某事并没有彻底的了解。

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This refers to the fact that people- this sounds like something you probably already know but it has been documented by psychologists.

指的是人们...,照字面意思,可能你们已经猜到,心理学家已经证明了这一原理

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But if intuitively, you just have a sense of what the problem is.

其实看字面，就应该猜到,这是什么意思了。

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Potential refers to what it sounds like, 'what potential does this committed progenitor cell have?' 'What potential does this stem cell have?' Well, one way to think about is that upon this first division, this asymmetric division, this committed progenitor cell has lost some potential.

这个"潜能"和字面意思相同,定向祖细胞的潜能是什么,干细胞的潜能又是什么,一种看法就是在第一次分化时,即不对称分裂时,定向祖细胞失去了一些潜能

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Incubate is the strange Latin word, and it's a verb -- of course, as we know-- it's a verb typically used with relation not to spirits but to gestating birds, and it literally means "to brood."

incubabat“是个罕见的拉丁词，是个动词--当然，我们知道--这个动词通常用于正在孕育后代的鸟,而不用于神灵，它的字面意思是“孵“

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