Each generation contributes an imperfect copy of its genotype - and thereby of its phenotype - to its successor.

每个世代都为其后代提供了其基因型——及其表型——的不完整备份。

youdao

Suppose, also, that the mechanisms that copy phenotypes from each generation to the next are "imperfect" in the sense given above.

同样再假设该物种表型复制之所以世代遗传的机制，就是上述观点中的“不完整性”。

youdao

The other: every copy is unique, irreplaceable, but (since the Library is total) there are always several hundred thousand imperfect facsimiles: works which differ only in a letter or comma.

其二：每一个拷贝都是独一无二、不可替代的，但是（由于宇宙即是全部）总是有几十万个不完美的副本：只有一个字或标点不同的作品。”…

youdao

And every earthly reality is only a pale shadow of its archetype, the original pattern, of which it is simply an imperfect copy.

NPR: Karen Armstrong: Myths and the Modern World