We are accustomed to think of every dynamic force operating in the mind as having the form either of a biological drive or of a conflict.

我们习惯于认为每一个动力在头脑中的运作的形式，要么是一个生物性的驱力，要么是一种冲突。

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Skyler S. Place, who headed up the study, says that the biological drive behind dating — finding an optimal mate for gene promotion — gives women reason to be elusive.

这项研究的负责人Skyler S. Place认为约会的背后存在着生物学的动机——找到一个能够提高基因质量的合适对象，这给了女人难以捉摸一个理由。

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He spells it out: all the drive, wit, love, pride, anger, hope and anxiety that characterise the species Homo sapiens are simply there to perpetuate the biological cycle.

威尔逊可谓是语出惊人，他说：所有用以刻画人类这个物种的种种特性，如内驱力、智力、爱情、骄傲、愤怒、希望和焦虑等，仅仅是为了让生物周期永久延续下去。

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We talked about the strong biological drive in the last class for sugar, fat, and variety.

我们上次课探讨过对于追求,糖类,脂肪之类的强大生物驱动力

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Now these parts of the world are shrinking in the number; but let's say you lived in Ethiopia or Somalia, or places where food really is scarce way too much of the time, then having this particular biological drive, having a brain that wants you to seek out these foods would be highly adaptive.

现在这些地区的数量正在减少,但如果你生活在埃塞俄比亚或是索马里,或是当前食品十分短缺的地区,那么拥有这种生物驱动力,拥有不断驱使你去寻找食物的大脑,会让你有极强的适应能力

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We'll talk about where it comes from, and the biological, economic, and political reasons that drive food to be certain things, and we'll talk about what it does to us and for us.

我们会谈到它的来源,生物学,经济学方面和政治方面的因素,是如何影响食品的,我们还会谈到它对我们的影响和帮助

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When someone challenges your dignity you can feel a biological drive to smack that threat down.

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Meanwhile, the racy pre-Code humor evokes pre-Christian immorality, and a couple of production numbers by Busby Berkeley (including an offensive one featuring Cantor in blackface) luridly choreograph the elaborate social rituals built up around the biological drive to procreate.

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Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young "for their discovery of molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms, " the committee said, which are guided by biological clocks and drive the waking and sleeping cycle.

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