They're made of matter just as human beings are, but their bodies aren't compounded of separable elements.

他们同人类一样由物质组成，但他们的身体不分部件。

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And it's certainly true that the atoms that make up my body existed long before my body existed.

可以肯定的说,那些组成我身体的,原子在我存在之前就存在

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Nutrients get broken down into several classes and these are the constituents of food that your body uses for one purpose or another.

营养素这个问题需要花几节课来讨论,它们是食物的组成要素,供给身体吸收,支持身体机能运转

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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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So even though it's true that some kind of recycling takes place, we can't conclude that everything that's now a part of me will continue to exist afterwards.

即使有一些部件会被循环利用,但我们不能断定,组成我们身体的每一部件都会死后永存

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But that doesn't mean that every part of my body existed before I was born, and that every part of my body will continue to exist after I die.

但是这并不意味着,组成我身体的所有部件都是先于我的存在,并不是每一个部件,都会在我死后依然存在

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Because after all, what are the parts that make us up?

因为我们的身体是由什么部件组成的呢

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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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As we nowadays know, human bodies are made up of atoms.

我们现在知道人的身体是由原子组成的

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