Biden explained the advantages of the new system: "Our new phased adaptive approach to missile defense is designed to meet a growing threat, not only to the United States, but first and foremost to Europe,"

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The immune system that we're used to thinking about is called the adaptive immune system, and the adaptive immune system does just that.

我们过去认识的免疫系统部分,现在被称为获得性免疫系统,获得性免疫系统功能如下

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And it's actually critically important to get used to things because it's a useful adaptive mechanism to keep track on new events and objects.

而习惯化实际上也是至关重要的,因为这是一种非常有用的适应机制,可以让你注意到新鲜事物。

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So this--the seeking out fat, sugar, and variety is a highly evolved, adaptive evolutionary trait.

脂肪,糖以及饮食的多样性的与,适应进化的特性是分不开的

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There are two types of adaptive immune responses and they're called humoral immune responses.

获得性免疫反应有两类,一种是体液免疫反应

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Rather, it's because this is a perfectly this is the adaptive strategy of the toxoplasmosis virus.

相反，这是一个完美的,这是弓浆虫的适应策略。

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From this perspective, dreams serve no adaptive function at all but rather they're epiphenomena.

从这个角度看，梦境没有自我适应功能,它只是一种副现象。

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That shouldn't be too surprising given what we talked about last week, that your immune system, the adaptive immune system in particular, responds to individual antigens differently.

你们不必惊讶,上周我们讲过免疫系统,特别是适应性免疫系统,对不同抗原的应答是具有特异性的

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The females do their spontaneous abortions because that's a reliable adaptive trick.

自然流产时雌狮用的适应技巧。

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That efficient metabolism that banks calories is highly efficient, highly important, highly adaptable, under circumstances where food is scarce, but not efficient and not adaptive under modern food conditions in the developed world.

能高效存储能量的代谢系统,在食品短缺的情况下,非常重要,有着较强的适应能力,但却不能适应,现代发达国家的食品环境

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The other part of the adaptive immune system is the cell mediated immune system and this is an immune where that doesn't involve antibodies but involves cells that are activated in response to a foreign antigen and that utilize cellular means to get rid of it.

获得性免疫系统还包括,细胞免疫,这一免疫反应不包含抗体,但包含可以被激活来应答,并清除外源抗原的免疫细胞

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Now these parts of the world are shrinking in the number; but let's say you lived in Ethiopia or Somalia, or places where food really is scarce way too much of the time, then having this particular biological drive, having a brain that wants you to seek out these foods would be highly adaptive.

现在这些地区的数量正在减少,但如果你生活在埃塞俄比亚或是索马里,或是当前食品十分短缺的地区,那么拥有这种生物驱动力,拥有不断驱使你去寻找食物的大脑,会让你有极强的适应能力

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We're usually talking about adaptive immunity here.

这就是我们经常说的获得性免疫

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