It was a gene that was causing a cell to be malignant and to divide without control, for example.

例如,一个会使细胞恶化,并不受控制地无限分裂的基因

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And if you had a motor here that was causing a paddle to move up and down you could cause waves to form at one end of the tank and move from left to right.

如果在水槽里放个发动器,来让水上下起伏,波浪形成于,水槽的一端,然后从左向右扩散。

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For my perspective, even if you understand God to be the creator of the world, I don't think that means that God is causing a certain natural event to happen at certain time.

从我的角度来说，即使你明白,上帝是世界的创造者，但这并不意味着上帝,导致了某个自然界的现象在特定的时间发生。

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What if this is a gene that's causing a cell to be cancerous?

但假如是个能导致细胞癌变的基因呢

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And it is almost like being in love except what it really is is two shots of caffeinated espresso causing a rapid heart rate an increase in respiration, sweaty palms, but I don't realize--she doesn't realize that's what it is.

跟恋爱一样的感觉,其实什么都不是,而是双倍浓度的咖啡因,导致心跳加速,呼吸急促，掌心冒汗，但我没意识到--她没意识到那是什么。

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I think there's a simple story which is very different from what's causing the current apparently current recession.

我认为这里有一个简单的故事，一个不同于,现在的经济衰退的故事，导致现在这个危机。

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And unfortunately some chemicals there that fell together there and ended up causing bit of an explosion, which was a sad event.

很不幸,有些化学药品跌落在了一起,结果引起了爆炸，十分遗憾。

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How is your immune system going to recognize that this virus is there causing bad results if it's living inside of a cell and doing all its business inside a cell where antibodies can't get to it?

你的免疫系统怎样才能识别,作恶多端的病毒呢,如果它隐藏在细胞中进行繁殖,而抗体又无法进入细胞,那该怎么办

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