他解释说：“如果蚁群已经找到了一种可靠的方法来确定蚁巢和食物源之间的最佳路线，那么公司经理们就会想，为什么不利用这种知识呢？”

He explains, "If ant colonies had worked out a reliable way to identify the best routes between their nest and food sources, the company managers figured, why not take advantage of that knowledge?"

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在亚洲和其它地方对人间病例的调查已确认与家庭禽群或死禽直接接触为人与该病毒最重要的接触源。

Investigations of human cases in Asia and elsewhere have identified close contact with diseased or dead household poultry as the most important source of human exposure to the virus.

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这种细胞在它们的工作状态下循环的次数越多，越能够在病毒建立起感染群之前消灭感冒前兆和流感的感染源。

The more these cells are circulating and on duty, the more likely they will be able to dispatch the first cold or flu agents before they can establish an infection.

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I've never seen anyone like them.' 'I found them in the West.'" So, there is that sense of the West as a source, and what he's going to do is take them back East.

我从未见过像他们一样的人’,’我在西部遇到他们的’“,对新西部的感觉成了一个源点，而他正想要把这群人带回东部。

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