Methane, there are certainly some solid bonds there, but breaking those to form CO2 and water, well it's worth it, right, energetically.

酒精中的确含有很强的化学键，但是打断这些化学键然后生成二氧化碳和水，从能量上来看是值得的。

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So, the active part of the thermometer could be water. It could be alcohol, mercury, it could be a piece of metal.

那么温度计的工作部分,可以是水可以是酒精，水银，可以是一块金属。

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And if you study this photo, you can see the qualities of a man struggling with alcoholism.

如果你研究过这张照片，你会发现一个和酒精做着斗争的人的特性。

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This distance here could be something like the alcohol content or the flavor of the beer.

这里的距离可以代表像酒精含量,或啤酒口味之类的东西

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If you take enough alcohol, it then goes down to inhibit the excitatory parts of your brain and then you fall on the floor and pass out.

如果你摄入足够的酒精,就会抑制在你大脑中起兴奋作用的脑组织,之后你便醉倒了

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It's mildly paradoxical because you may be thinking, "Alcohol is not inhibitory.

你可能会感到有些出乎意料,因为你也许是这样想的,"酒精可不是什么抑制剂

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Well, the answer is it inhibits the inhibitory parts of your brain.

答案就是,酒精抑制了在你大脑中,起抑制作用的脑组织的活动

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And so in what way is alcohol inhibitory?

那么酒精是怎样起到抑制作用的呢

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Philosophers and psychologists knew for a long time that getting smacked in the head could change your mental faculties; that diseases like syphilis could make you deranged; that chemicals like caffeine and alcohol can affect how you think.

哲学家和心理学家在很久以前便知道,头部受到重创,会改变你的心理官能,像梅毒这样的疾病可以让你精神错乱,像咖啡因和酒精这样的化学药品,可以影响到你的思维

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Alcohol is inhibitory.

酒精是抑制性的

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