And the crucial point about the case is that we stipulate that at no point was there a dramatic change.

这个案例的关键就在于,我们推断生命不可能会有戏剧化的剧变。

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And the change was, that in this case, if I'm doing a single search, I've got a choice.

这个改变是，在这种情况下，如果我要做单一检索，我就面临一个选择。

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Well, I can, for any given case, measure the pressure, determine the entropy and I'll know what the slope of change will be.

好的，对特定的情况，我可以测量压强，确定熵,并且知道这就是变化的速率。

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Insulin, the ligand binds to its receptor, creates a change through a kinase activity that's exposed, which leads to other biochemical changes, which leads to a change in cell behavior - in this case the cell behavior is that more glucose transporters are brought to the membrane and more glucose can enter the cell.

胰岛素,一种能够与受体结合的配体,通过其暴露出的激酶活性引起的变化,导致了其它后续生化变化的发生,进而使细胞行为发生改变,这个例子中的细胞行为就是,更多的糖载体被带到细胞膜表面,这样更多的糖分子进入到细胞内部

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The spontaneous change lowers the potential energy in that case.

在这个例子中,自发变化减小了势能。

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