In the Nature paper, the researchers discovered that the majority of crawling (movement along messenger RNA) occurs during a new kind motion, "head swivel," rather than ratcheting.

在《自然》的这篇论文中，研究者发现，多数移行(沿信使RNA运动)在一种新的运动中出现，“头部旋转”，而不是发生棘轮。

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He leaned back in the swivel chair and locked his fingers behind his head.

他向后靠在转椅上，两手手指交叉锁定在脑后。

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In doing that, you automatically swivel your body. And you position your head and shoulders so you are looking directly out.

这样做，你的身体就会自动转向，头和肩膀的位置也会移动，自然向外看。

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Today's signature move is the head swivel.

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It starts to get out of control pretty bad, and I think you learn from that, you learn to keep your head on a swivel.

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Throughout, as Sir Georg listened, his bald head with its big ears would swivel from side to side in metronomic time to the music.

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