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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。
n. 财产，所有物，性质，地产，道具
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- These bacteria are not passive riders, these are incredibly important, they keep us alive.
- 这些细菌不是顺从的乘客，他们难以置信得重要，他们让我们活着。
- They cover us in an invisible body armor that keeps environmental insults out so that we stay healthy.
- 它们是我们身上的无形盔甲，阻断来之环境的伤，保持我们的健康。
- They digest our food, they make our vitamins, they actually educate your immune system to keep bad microbes out.
- 它们消化食物，制造维他命，它们还指导你的免疫系统将有害微生物阻挡在体外。
- So they do all these amazing things that help us and are vital for keeping us alive, and they never get any press for that.
- 它们尽心尽职干活，帮助我们，维护我们的生命，却从没有因此得到过报道。
- But they get a lot of press because they do a lot of terrible things as well.
- 反而却因为它们同时做的许多坏事而时常见报。
- So, there's all kinds of bacteria on the Earth that have no business being in you or on you at any time,
- 地球上有无数种细菌，有些在任何时候都绝对不应该出现在你的体内体表，
- and if they are, they make you incredibly sick.
- 然而假如你不幸遇到了，那你一定会病得很厉害。
- And so, the question for my lab is whether you want to think about all the good things that bacteria do, or all the bad things that bacteria do.
- 所以, 我们实验室研究的问题是，正是你想知道的，细菌做的所有好事或者细菌做的所有坏事。
- The question we had is how could they do anything at all?
- 我们曾经提出一个疑问: 它们究竟是怎么做到的?
- I mean they're incredibly small, you have to have a microscope to see one.
- 我指的是，它们是那么细微，用显微镜才能看到一个。
- They live this sort of boring life where they grow and divide, and they've always been considered to be these asocial reclusive organisms.
- 它们的生活好像只是单调乏味的成长与分裂，而且长久以来被认为是不善社交的隐居生命体。
- And so it seemed to us that they are just too small to have an impact on the environment if they simply act as individuals.
- 所以在我们看来，它们实在是太渺小，如果单枪匹马，根本到无法对环境产生任何影响。
- And so we wanted to think if there couldn't be a different way that bacteria live.
- 所以我们正在探讨细菌是不是有着特殊的生存方式。
- And the clue to this came from another marine bacterium, and it's a bacterium called Vibrio fischeri.
- 解答这个问题的线索，来自一种叫做费氏弧菌的海洋细菌。
- And what you're looking at on this slide is just a person from my lab holding a flask of a liquid culture of a bacterium,
- 你们在这张幻灯看到的，是我实验室的一个工作人员握着一瓶装满这种细菌的培养液，
- a harmless beautiful bacterium that comes from the ocean, named Vibrio fischeri.
- 这是一种来自海洋的、美丽而且无害的细菌，叫做费氏弧菌。
- And this bacterium has the special property that it makes light, so it makes bioluminescence, like fireflies make light.
- 这种细菌的特性是会发光，产生生物荧光，像萤火虫一样。
- So we're not doing anything to the cells here.
- 我们没有对这些细胞做任何处理。
- We just took the picture by turning the lights off in the room, and this is what we see.
- 我们只是把房间灯关了，然后照了这张照片，这是我们所见到的情形。
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