Miz Mead wrote that many so-called male and female characteristics are not based on sex differences.

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And which, in the case of England, the civil war was largely fought, to a great extent anyway, trying to prevent the English monarchy from taking on characteristics of those emerging absolute states on the continent.

其中之一是英国,［1648年的英国内战称之为 "英国资产阶级革命"］,这在很大程度上,是为了阻止英国的君主制,转变为欧洲大陆上新兴的绝对主义

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Because the cells are the fundamental component of our bodies; very interesting because all of our cells in our body share many characteristics and some of those characteristics are shown on this picture.

因为细胞是我们身体的基本构成单位,这非常有意思,因为我们身体里所有细胞,有许多共同的特征,而其中的一些特征展示在了这幅图中

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Steroid hormones, on the other hand, molecules like testosterone and estrogen, progesterone, the sex steroids that determine sexual characteristics and are important for reproductive function are molecules that are all derived from a similar source.

另一方面,类固醇类激素,像睾丸激素,雌激素,黄体酮这样的分子,性激素决定了性征,它对生殖功能十分重要,这类分子有着相似的来源

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