"Pain is probably the earliest most primitive experience around, going all the way back to single celled organisms," he says.

“疼痛可能是最早的也是最原始的体验，回归到最简单的我们称之为有机体的东西，”他说到。

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The ancestors of plants were photosynthetic single-celled organisms that gave rise to plants presumably lacked true roots, stems, leaves, and complex reproductive structures such as flowers.

植物的祖先是进行光合作用的单细胞生物，由此产生的植物可能缺乏真正的根、茎、叶和复杂的生殖结构，如花朵。

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Scientists have known for some time that life exists at such depths, but they thought it mostly consisted of single-celled organisms.

科学家们早已知道在这一深度存在有生命，但他们认为存在的主要是单细胞生物。

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His research began with fruit flies, but over the last two decades, his focus has been on parasitic protozoa, single-celled organisms that cause major diseases.

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We talked about last time that part of the process of going from this single cell to multi cellular many celled organisms like we are is cell division.

我们上节课说过,从一个单细胞分裂形成大量细胞,构成的器官的过程,叫做细胞分裂

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The single-celled organisms appeared to be harmless, though we were cautioned not to touch anything, to keep the windows shut, to wash our hands.

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But even if single-celled organisms are all we can manage to discover in the foreseeable future, Darling is eloquent about the ways in which such findings are now changing how we think about our own existence.

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