I mean like cutting them, taking the scales out,

比如说切鱼、去鳞、

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Moral purity of persons can be achieved only by punishment for heinous sins: for example, the punishment of chirate, or cutting off, ; is a divine punishment of being extirpated from the House of Israel; death, alright, that's one way to be rid of moral impurity.

只有通过惩罚这些穷凶极恶的罪过,才能获得道德的纯洁，举个例子，切去身上的某部分，是一种连根拔去罪恶的惩罚方法;,死亡，当然也是摆脱道德不洁的一种方法。

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That messenger RNA that's being used has already gone through the RNA splicing mechanism and so the introns have already been removed.

这个mRNA,已经经过了RNA剪接机制的剪接,切去了内含子

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