What was once thought of as the "ties of blood" is now a string of information, concrete and molecular, that we store, temporarily, before it makes its way to our offspring, or ends with us.

我们曾经所认为的“血缘纽带”会变成一组信息，具体和分子性的，暂时储存在我们身体里，最终遗传给我们的下一代，或者在我们这里终结。

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Since everyone is trying to figure out what will be hot, most people come to the same conclusion and the area that once was hot is now crowded with many folks all chasing the "hot" area.

因为每个人都在设法找出热门领域，最后大多数人的想法都是相同的；那个过去曾是热门的领域，现在挤满了那些追逐“热门”领域的人。

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Once through, you're into what was the sea wall and a small beach, but is now a nature reserve, created out of the spoil of the Channel tunnel.

出了隘口，你就看见了海堤，还有一片小小的沙滩，现在这里是从英吉利海峡隧道弃土中开发出的一片自然保护区。

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And,that where someone once said that Gaul was divided into three parts, now what happens is people living in any region in France, the three parts that they see are the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of the Interior.

据说高卢民族被分成了三个部分,现在,这些住在法国的人怎么了,他们眼中的三个部分是司法部,军务部,还有内务部

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