"We did our job. A significant phase has been passed through with as little harm done as conceivably could have been done under the circumstances.

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Or being a professor is a phase you can go through and then cease to be.

或者像作为教授是一段时间后会停止的。

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In the same way that being a child is a phase you can go through for a period of time and then cease to be.

就像是作为儿童存在一样也是一个阶段,会经历一段时间而后停止。

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Now, this is going to get progressively weirder but I will have to say, as the father of two sons, both sons went through a phase where they explicitly said they wanted to marry Mommy.

现在，事情变得越来越诡异,但我要说，我是两个儿子的父亲，我的两个儿子在性器官期时,都曾明确地说过要娶他们的妈妈。

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They get arrested in the G1 phase, for example, and they never progress through to the S phase where they synthesize DNA.

就比如说它们在G1期停滞不前,永远不能到达,合成DNA的S期

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