Conference organizer, Dr.Greg Pappas of the American non-governmental organization,or NGO, called Interaction says that while it is too early to tell whether the current outbreak will turn into a global pandemic, poorer countries in particular need to be prepared for the day when one does hit.

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Well that process of control to maintain a constant environment inside our body, whether it's an environment of constant mass or constant composition, or constant temperature, is called homeostasis.

这个控制过程维持着,体内环境的恒定,不论是内环境中物质的量的稳定,或者成分的稳定,或温度的稳定,这种状态叫做内稳态

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I'm not sure whether this really should be called a coma.

我不确定这是否真的该被称作昏迷。

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having distinguished between what we've called the death of the body and the death of the person, the question whether or not you're going to die needs to be distinguished.

在我们分清了,肉体的死亡,和个人的死亡后，关于你是否会死的问题,也需要进行分辨。

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