Their observance protects the holy object from profanation, from being profaned, reverting from holy status back to common status.

它们按照惯例保护着神圣的东西不受亵渎，不受玷污，不让它们重新回归世俗。

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Holy things only exist because of safeguards, rules that keep them separate, that demarcate them.

神圣的事物只有在保护措施，规定，存在的时候才会存在，它们被和世俗区别开来。

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Moreover, the kids we have are vulnerable for long periods of time and require our resources.

而且，我们的孩子很长一段时间,易受伤害,我们需要保护它们。

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That's a big problem and so can you protect these cells that you give to the recipient from attack by the recipient's immune system?

并且至关重要,那么你们想办法保护这些植入受体的细胞,使它们免受免疫系统的排异反应么

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And they're altruistic because they act to preserve other animals that share the same genes.

说它们利他，是因为它们会保护其他动物,和它们有同样基因的动物。

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