As we learned about how humans operate we could start to design machines that would help humans when they weren't functioning properly.

当我们了解了机体如何运作,就可以设计出器械,在人体某些部位功能失常时提供帮助

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So, every philosopher or psychologist or humanist or neuroscientist who has ever thought about people has had to make some claim about the nature of language and how it works.

因此,无论是哲学家,心理学家,人类学家,还是神经系统学家,只要他们曾经研究过人类,便会就语言的特性及其功能提出某些理论

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So organs are made up of combinations of tissues where all the tissues are collections of cells that are doing some function, nervous tissue, muscular tissue, epithelial tissue, those are examples of tissues that form organs.

所以器官是由各种组织组合而成,所有的组织都是,具有某些功能的细胞集合,神经组织,肌肉组织,上皮组织,这些都是由组织构成器官的例子

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One of the reasons why you would want to segregate things into certain regions is that molecules have to move in order to accomplish these things; molecules have to move from one place to another.

将细胞功能定位于某个固定区域的,另一个原因是,生物大分子需要移动,以完成某些功能,分子从一个地方移动到另一个地方

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Some functions are lateralized.

某些功能是单侧化的

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So, if you were to lose half your brain, the other half can actually do a lot but some things are more prevalent and more powerful in one part of the brain than the other And I want to show you a brief film clip from "Scientific American" that illustrates the differences between the hemispheres, but before doing that,I want to provide some introductory facts.

如果你失去了半个大脑,另外一半其实也可以完成很多功能,但是某些功能是存在单侧化优势的,我给你们播放一段短片,来自于《科学美国人》,它解释了大脑两半球的功能差异,但在此之前,我想先做一些介绍

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