And I think there was a time when that sense of dominion was used as justification for using those resources only to serve human needs.

我想，有一段时间里，这种统治感,被人们当做使用资源的借口,仅仅为了满足人类的需求。

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Kinases can, in many cases, serve as a mechanism for switching a protein on or switching a protein off.

激酶能够,在很多情况下,能够激活一种蛋白或者关闭一种蛋白

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Add to the above Hobbes' repeated insistence that law serve as an instrument for achieving social equality.

除此之外,霍布斯坚决主张,法律应当是维护社会公平和平等的工具。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, saying let us be we will serve the Egyptians, for it's better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.

这跟你在埃及答应我们的不同，你说过让我们,我们应该服侍埃及人,伺候他们总比死在荒野中好。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Well, it turns out that we could not identify, at least at that point, a cell culture that would serve as a host for vaccinia.

然而我们还不能断定,至少这个时候无法断定,这些被感染的细胞就是牛痘病毒的宿主

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Religion had to bring a softening effect upon against the violent and bestial character of the early Romans. But for us today, Machiavelli writes, religion has to serve the opposite purpose.

宗教必须带来一种缓和效应，用以针对,早期罗马人的野蛮残忍的性格,但是对于今天的我们来说，马基雅维利写道，宗教不得不为相反的目的服务。

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