不久之后，他在一次车祸中受伤，对他那因车祸而变形的右臂，医生们无能为力，只能将其固定于一个姿势。

Shortly afterwards he was injured in a car crash and doctors could do nothing with his crushed right arm except lock it in one position.

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在我们变形虫那样的远古祖先身体里，基因之间已经形成了固定的组合来一起从事构成细胞壁和其他基本的生命必要活动。

In our distant, amoeba-like ancestors, clusters of genes were already forming to work together on building cell walls and on other very basic tasks essential to life.

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在这时，他们将固定，并改变形状。同时发出一些可以被精确解读的输出数据，也许就像实验室测试出的那样。

At that point, they would bind, change shape, and give off some kind of "readout," which could presumably be measured (perhaps showing up on a lab test).

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