严寒可以使身体新陈代谢的速度下降。

The body's metabolism is slowed down by extreme cold.

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它们缺乏储水结构，而且它们长在岩石表面，这阻止了它们利用地下水，所以它们反而形成了改变新陈代谢的能力。

They lack water-storing structures, and their existence on rock faces prevents them from tapping groundwater, so they have instead developed the ability to change their metabolism.

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一旦开始生长，这些植物似乎就不再具有暂停其茎叶新陈代谢的能力。

Once they start growing, such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.

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There's a kind of organic continuity that men partake of just as the natural world does.

如同自然世界的新陈代谢，人类也有一种,有机的代谢与持续。

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Because of the lack of oxygen getting to the cells, the cells are no longer able to carry on their various metabolic processes.

由于细胞中缺少氧气,所以细胞不能完成,它们的各种新陈代谢活动

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Plus, there are some natural metabolic variability and I'll describe that in a subsequent lecture.

另外,这里面有自然的新陈代谢差异,我会在随后的课堂上讲解

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