I remember on one occasion, we were talking about building a persistent object store. It was all about object serialization and access mechanisms.

我记得有一次，我们在谈持久化对象存储的事情，说来说去都是对象的序列化和访问机制。

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One kind of cellular communication occurs by similar mechanisms to what we were talking about.

细胞通讯中的一种,与我刚才讲过的信号转导的机制相似

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If you have a computer that plays chess and you want to explain how the computer plays chess, it's impossible to do so without talking about the programs and mechanisms inside the computer.

如果你有一台能下国际象棋的计算机,你想要解释计算机是如何下国际象棋的，如果你不谈程序以及计算机的内部结构,那你就不能对它如何下国际象棋,给出解释。

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