It turns out the electrical potential or electricity that you can measure on the surface of the body reflects things that are happening deeper inside like the beating of your heart.

人们已经证明在体表测量得到的电势能,或者电信号,能够表征,像心跳这样,身体较深处的变化

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Its role is to move molecules around in the body so that they're available to cells everywhere within your body regardless of how close they are to your skin, and we'll talk about that.

它能将分子输送到身体各处,供体内所有的细胞使用,而无论那些细胞多么靠近体表,我们会讲到这些的

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