Tiny, plant-like organisms—phytoplankton—thrive throughout the Southern Hemisphere’s spring and summer on an abundance of nutrients and long hours of sunlight.

浮游植物是体型微小、像植物一样的微生物，它们在南半球的春季和夏季充足的营养及长时间的日照条件下，生长旺盛。

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The plant-like organisms in plankton, known as phytoplankton, are found close to the surface of the water where there is sufficient light to allow photosynthesis.

人们在光线充足、能够产生光合作用、靠近水面的地方，发现了浮游生物中植物似的生物体——浮游植物。

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Algae are simply plants or plant-like organisms.

藻类是一种简单的植物或植物样生物。

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They kill parts of coral colonies or communities, so that simple organisms like algae can grow.

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So these organisms like this are abundant in the world around us and our immune system prevents us from getting sick most of the time.

在我们周围充斥着像这样的生物体,而免疫系统在大多数时候能够抵御疾病

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In complex organisms like humans there's another step that we're still only learning about now.

在像人类这样的复杂有机体中,还有另一个我们至今仍未完全了解的步骤

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For instance Geoffrey West and Luis Bettencourt, both of the Santa Fe Institute, found that cities scale much like organisms.

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Some scientists suspect Mars once sheltered primitive, bacteria-like organisms and previous missions found evidence Mars at one time boasted ample quantities of water.

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Some of the data it gathered about the abundance of phytoplankton - plant-like organisms that convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and provide food for other sea life - could already be monitored by satellite.

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