It doesn't work that way for a variety of reasons, but the main reason is that you want some decisions to be made at each space between two cells.

这出于很多原因,但主要的原因是,在每个细胞间隙,都需要决定信息是否继续传递

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It's called the synaptic cleft and it's filled with extracellular fluid.

这一空间叫做突触间隙,中间充满了细胞外液

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This is a mechanism by which an electrical signal comes here, it gets translated into a chemical signal, the chemical diffuses across the gap and reinitiates a - an electrical signal in the next cell and that's one way that it happens.

这就是电信号产生的机理,电信号翻译成化学信号,化学物质扩散过突触间隙,重新激起下个细胞中的电信号,这是一种方式

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