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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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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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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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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As we'll talk about later in the class, the biodiversity has shrunk so what used to be hundreds of varieties of corn is now just a few.

像我们后面所要提到的,玉米种群的生物多样性已经从曾经的,几百种减少到了现在的几种

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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 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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There are more than 20 amino acids that make up the biological polymers called proteins, so there are 20 choices of each amino acid at a position on a protein.

而那些称为蛋白质的生物活性多聚体,是由二十种不同氨基酸所构成,因此每个蛋白质的,任意位点都有多达二十种氨基酸可供选择

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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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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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