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博妮·柏索发现细菌间是会交谈的，它们用一种化学语言来达到共同防卫，协同攻击的行为。这个发现对今后的医疗、工业有着重大的意义，包括怎样认识我们人类自己。
adj. 显微镜的，极小的，微观的
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- Bacteria are the oldest living organisms on the earth.
- 细菌是地球上最古老的生物。
- They've been here for billions of years, and what they are are single-celled microscopic organisms.
- 它们已经存在数十亿年了，它们是单细胞微生物。
- So they are one cell and they have this special property that they only have one piece of DNA.
- 它们特征是只有一个细胞，还有就是它们只有一份DNA。
- They have very few genes, and genetic information to encode all of the traits that they carry out.
- 它们只有少量基因和遗传信息，来编码它们表达的特性。
- And the way bacteria make a living is that they consume nutrients from the environment,
- 细菌生存的方法，是不断从环境中吸取养分，
- they grow to twice their size, they cut themselves down in the middle, and one cell becomes two, and so on and so on.
- 在成长到两倍的体积后，它们从中一分为二，分裂为两个细胞，如此循环。
- They just grow and divide, and grow and divide -- so a kind of boring life,
- 它们不停得生长、分裂，然后再生长、再分裂--过着有点乏味的生活。
- except that what I would argue is that you have an amazing interaction with these critters.
- 但是，今天我想告诉你，你与这些细菌有着惊人的互动关系。
- I know you guys think of yourself as humans, and this is sort of how I think of you.
- 我知道你认为你自己是人类，而这可能也是我如何看你们的。
- This man is supposed to represent a generic human being, and all of the circles in that man are all of the cells that make up your body.
- 在这里的是一个一般人类的代表，在他身上所有的圆圈代表着各个组成人体的细胞。
- There is about a trillion human cells that make each one of us who we are and able to do all the things that we do,
- 每个人体大约是由一兆个人体细胞所组成，它们让我们能完成各种各样我们想做的事情，
- but you have 10 trillion bacterial cells in you or on you at any moment in your life.
- 但是，你一生中的每时每刻，有大约十兆个细菌细胞生活在你的体内体表。
- So, 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells on a human being.
- 所以，有十倍于人体细胞的细菌细胞生活在一个人身上。
- And of course it's the DNA that counts, so here's all the A, T, Gs and Cs that make up your genetic code, and give you all your charming characteristics.
- 同理，我们要算一下DNA，这是所有的A, T, G和C(腺嘌呤, 胸腺嘧啶, 鸟嘌呤, 胞嘧啶)组成你的基因密码, 赋予你所有的魅力特征。
- So you have about 30,000 genes. Well it turns out you have 100 times more bacterial genes playing a role in you or on you all of your life.
- 你有3万左右的遗传基因，而围绕你的细菌的遗传基因数量是你自己的100倍，它们在你的身体内部和表面上中始终扮演着重要的角色。
- And so, at the best, you're 10 percent human, but more likely about one percent human, depending on which of these metrics you like.
- 最乐观的看法是: 你只是“10分之1人”, 事实上“100分之一人”更准确，取决于你更喜欢用哪个尺度来衡量。
- So I know you think of yourself as human beings, but I think of you as 90 or 99 percent bacterial.
- 我知道你自认为是一个“人类”，但在我眼里你是90%~99%的细菌。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| microscopic | ['maikrə'skɔpik] | |||
| boring | ['bɔ:riŋ] | |||
| property | ['prɔpəti] | 联想记忆 | ||
| environment | [in'vaiərənmənt] | |||
| generic | [dʒi'nerik] | 联想记忆 | ||
| interaction | [.intə'rækʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| code | [kəud] | |||
| bacteria | [bæk'tiəriə] | |||
| genetic | [dʒi'netik] | 联想记忆 | ||
| charming | ['tʃɑ:miŋ] | 联想记忆 |
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