Growth, reproduction, and daily metabolism all require an organism to expend energy.

生长、繁殖和日常的新陈代谢都需要有机体来消耗能量。

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The city is an extraordinary processor of mass and energy and has its own metabolism.

城市是质量和能量的特殊处理器，有着自己的新陈代谢。

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There's a high energy cost in switching from a regular metabolism to an almost-no-water metabolism.

从常规的新陈代谢转换为几乎无水的新陈代谢会消耗大量的能量。

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Glucose has to get into cells, that's the main source of energy source that cells use, metabolism of glucose.

但葡萄糖又必须进入细胞,因为它是细胞能量的主要来源,即通过葡萄糖代谢产生能量

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The ones who would seek out calories, the ones who could store and not waste energy, those with an efficient metabolism-- that is those people who took in calories and banked them into their body fat and stored against subsequent famine-- are the ones who would do the best under these circumstances.

那些寻找能量的人,那些储存而不浪费能量的人,那些有着高效代谢系统的人,那些人可以将摄入的热量储存为机体脂肪,以用于对抗即将到来的饥荒,在早先的情况下他们是最适应环境的

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Vitamin B-12 is often used in weight loss programs to boost energy and metabolism.

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These components, which have their own private sets of genes, are essential for metabolism: they release energy from sugar.

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Eliminating free radical production would involve completely redesigning aspects of our metabolism, especially the way we use oxygen to extract energy from food.

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