So if you had some number back in grade school like 123, well, why do we express this as 123?

在小学，像123这样的数，为什么我们要表达成123这样的呢？

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You could use the "I want to" pattern to express something much less practical as well.

你也可以用“I want to”句型来表达不太现实的事情。

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Well it turns out a bunch of years ago people just decided that if we have the ability to express numbers and we actually care about expressing letters of the alphabet, well we just need some kind of mapping between one and the other, ASCII and so thus was born what's generally called the ASCII.

结果证实，数年前,人们觉得如果我们,有数字表达能力,而我们真正在乎其实是字符的表达，那么我们就需要数字和字符的某种对应关系，于是就有了俗称的。

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We want not only for the cell to be able to synthesize the DNA, you want it to be able to express the protein off the DNA as well.

我们不仅希望细胞能复制DNA,还希望它能表达目标DNA所编码的蛋白

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Well, the way that your immune system recognizes it is that all the cells of our body express a molecule on their surface, a membrane protein called the MHC1 complex.

而免疫系统识别的方法是,身体内所有细胞在其表面表达一种分子,一种叫做MHC1复合体的膜蛋白

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