该装置看上去像录像机，连接在家用电视机和立体音箱上。

The device looks like a video recorder and plugs into the home television and stereo system.

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不过，该装置确实有一个明显的缺点。

The device does have one significant drawback, however.

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他们在放学途中发现该装置。

They found the device outside a local school as they were going home.

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So the benefits turned out to be only $49.5 million and so they didn't install the device.

收益最后只有4950万,因此他们没有安装该装置。

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This is a picture of patch clamp, it's a device that engineers built to fasten onto individual cells in order to look at how molecules in the membrane of the cell are working, and I'll talk a little bit about that as we go along.

这是膜片钳的图片,工程师使用该装置固定单个细胞,由此观察,细胞膜中的分子怎样活动,在以后的课中我还会谈到这方面内容

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