They make proteins including oxygen-carrying blood substances, antibodies to protect against disease, and substances that break down sugar.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

If we take hydrogen peroxide in the liquid state, it can break down to form water and oxygen.

如果我们有一些液态的过氧化氢，它会分解成水和氧气。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

or the trains break down or there are power failures,

或者火车出故障了，或者电力不足了，

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The mummification process protects the body's soft tissue long after it would normally break down.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

Yeah, I think I'll make that clear line, meaning the... like again, Israeli politics doesn't really, in that case doesn't really break down religiously.

是，我来说清楚，我的意思是。,以色列的政治也不会，因为宗教原因而崩溃。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The researchers tested all the children for products that break down from organophosphates.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

We can break the book of Leviticus down into the units that are listed on that side of the board.

我们将整本《利未记》分成一个个单元来讲,单元表就在那边的板上。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Bones are living tissue. Tissues continually break down and then replace themselves.

VOA: special.2010.08.31

All there is to say is, "Some of these are going to break down, and some of these won't."

而真正的解释却是,有些原子会分裂,而有些则不会

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Physically,the rocks break down into smaller and smaller pieces.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

What's the point of this? Again, now that I can think about things recursively, I can similarly break things down into simpler versions of the same problem. It could be one version.

这些的意思是什么呢？再一次我想说,我既然能够以递归的方式思考了,那么我就可以简单地把问题,转化为更简单的同类问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"They fall all over the Earth, not just Antarctica, but the best places for us to find them are the deserts because they don't get weathered and they don't break down as easily."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

As long as it's reversible, you know what the efficiency has to be, and in principle, you could break it down into a bunch of steps that you could formulate as isothermal and adiabatic.

只要这个循环过程是可逆的，你们知道效率是多少，从理论上说，可以将总过程,分解成一系列绝热,和等温的小过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Researchers say the speech impediment appears to stem from a defectin the gene that regulates the way brain cells break down and recycle waste products.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

Formaldehyde cross-links proteins, so, if you treated this virus with Formaldehyde, even it was able to enter a cell, it couldn't break down anymore.

甲醛使蛋白质发生交联反应,因此,如果你对病毒使用了甲醛,即使它可以侵入细胞,它也不能够再进行分解

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He says the war-time unit helped break down racial barriers in the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

But you could imagine that communication could break down here.

不过也可能有沟通失败的情况

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"It's cheap,it's extremely robust, it won't break down, it's very lightweight."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

So, that's not exactly the case and we're going to start in at the point where right around this time of great confidence of feeling all has been conquered, there are some observations and discoveries that are made that completely break down these theories.

把测量弄的更精确一点,但事实并不如他说的这样,我们就要从这时候谈起,当时人们十分有信心的,觉得已经征服了一切问题,但有一些实验和观察,彻底粉碎了这种看法。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Wowereit added that the project is meant to teach them about that time in history and to encourage them to break down walls and barriers wherever they may be.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The word "carbohydrate," as you might imagine, if you ever thought to break it down means the combination of carbon and water.

碳水化合物这个词,如你所想,如果你把它进行拆分的话,就是碳和水的结合物

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He says places like IMAN help break down discrimination.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

Those are the sorts of things we need to break down the statistics the billion people in poverty.

我们需要用这些事例,让人们对几十亿人口,这样一个数据有具体的认识。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"We know that surface use of dispersants decreases the environmental risk to shorelines and organisms at the surface and we know that dispersants break down over weeks rather than remaining for several years as untreated oil might."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

Can we explain why the ones that do break down break down and the ones that don't break down don't break down?

我们能解释,为什么那个分裂了的原子分裂了,而没分裂的原子没有分裂吗

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"And basically it is to take a brief freeze frame on individual cases to see if we can really break them down and have face to face communications between those representing consumers or homeowners with lender attorneys to see if deals can be struck."

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

Our goal is to take problems and break them down into these computational steps, these sequence of instructions that'll allow us to capture that process.

我们的目标是得到问题,然后将问题分解为这些计算步骤，这些指令集,可以让我们看到这个过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

What does that mean? Well, it means that, you know, there's maybe, let's say, that in the next 24 hours it will break down.

这意味着什么 好的,这意味着,就是说,有可能,这个原子会在未来的二十四小时内分裂

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If you set up the atoms exactly the same way, they've always got to break down."

如果你精确地把原子以,同种方式设置,它们肯定会分裂

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Now, according to quantum mechanics under the standard interpretation, that's all there is to say about it. You have an atom like that, 80 percent chance in the next 24 hours it will break down.

按照量子力学的正统理论,也就是说,在未来二十四小时内,这个原子有百分之八十的概率会分裂

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