Alcohol is chemically similar to water, so it can work its way into bacterial cytoplasm, where it makes the proteins fall apart, killing the cell.

乙醇在化学上的性质与水相似，它能以自己独有的方式进入到细菌的细胞质当中，在这里，它会瓦解蛋白质并杀死细胞。

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Indeed, as it is increasingly becoming a consumption tool - often for killing time at work - it is slowing, not increasing, productivity.

事实上，它越来越成为一个消耗因素-在工作中消磨时光-它在降低而非提高生产力。

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They were filled with anger as they spent their days and nights trying to raise their other kids, go to work, and follow the all-consuming ongoing investigation into the killing.

在那些日日夜夜里，无论是在照顾其他孩子，还是在工作、在关注对案件的调查，愤怒都无时无刻不萦绕在他们心头。

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After fires exploded across European Russia, burning 2,000 homes and killing 52 people, city officials sent out a work crew.

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Then Chicago's penalty killing and alert work by Emery helped preserve the lead.

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We are killing ourselves with work and preparing our children to do the same by failing to teach them, either by example or through formal education, that exercise and physical health are important life concerns.

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Philadelphia coach Peter Laviolette credited the fantastic special teams work on killing the lengthy Rangers power play.

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