目前，研究者必须给它喂食化学物质，让它维持，但他希望，两年内，这个人造化学体系不仅能进化，还能自我维持，成为一种原始的合成生命形态。

At present, students have to feed it chemicals to keep going but he hopes it will be both evolving and self-sustaining within a couple of years -a primitive form of synthetic life.

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目前，研究者必须给它喂食化学物质，让它维持，但他希望，两年内，这个人造化学体系不仅能进化，还能自我维持，成为一种原始的合成生命形态。

At present, students have to feed it chemicals to keep going but he hopes it will be both evolving and self-sustaining within a couple of years - a primitive form of synthetic life.

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“这是首例有能力进行达尔文式进化的人造化学体系，”研究领导者史蒂文·伯纳(Steven Benner)说。

"This is the first example of an artificial chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution," says Steven Benner, the research leader.

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