She is in chains, and just because it's ornament just because it has the diminutive, doesn't mean that it's not a chain.

她被带上了“小“链子，它的“小“,或“装饰性“都不能改变它是一条锁链这个事实。

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The magnet creates a field which changes the polarity of a tiny, tiny portion of the metal particles which coat each platter's surface.

这个磁体创建一个,能改变覆盖在,磁盘表面小金属粒子的磁极。

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If you put in other little strands of melody, it changes it more toward polyphonic texture.

如果将之放到其他的小旋律中，将会改变对位材质。

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That - irreversible changes happen all the time too but here I'm talking about very subtle small changes where you're changing the structure of the protein but only a little bit such that it can go back.

这种不可逆的改变时时刻刻都在发生,但我在这里想讲的是,对蛋白质结构进行微小的改变,小到这种改变是可逆的

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