They allege that the company's drilling polluted their water with chemicals,metals and methane, the main constituent of natural gas, causing explosions as well as gastrointestinal and neurological illness.

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It uses what in the Structural Anthropology essay he calls "mythemes" or "gross constituent units" of thought.

它用到了在《结构人类学》中,所说的思想的，“神话素“或者，“大构成单位“

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How many changes of the constituent parts can you ? have and still be the same hunk of stuff?

要保持是同一辆车,最多可以换多少部件？

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Well, that's because it's actually not a gross constituent unit in a semiotic system, right?

哈哈，这是因为,红灯不是这一符号系统的一个完整单元？

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What happens in the intestine is that food gets broken down into constituent molecules, some of those molecules are absorbed into our bodies.

在肠道中,食物必须分解成基本的组成分子,其中一些分子才能被我们的身体吸收

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That's very useful for things like chemical reactions where this constituent changes to this one.

对于化学反应之类的过程,这是非常重要的。

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And so the food is a broader constituent of what we consume; the nutrient will be the pieces of the food that affect bodily function.

所以食物的概念要比吃的东西更加广泛,食物中的营养素影响着我们的人体机能

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For example, in terms of the atomic theory of matter, at the time at the turn of the Century, the understanding was that atoms were the most basic constituent of matter, meaning you couldn't break atoms up into anything smaller - that was it, you're done.

例如在原子理论中,在19，20世纪之交的时候,人们认为原子是,组成物质的最基本粒子,也就是说你不能,把原子再分割了,就这样了。

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It deploys and manipulates those gross constituent units of thought in the ways that we saw, but notice what Levi-Strauss is saying in that essay as opposed to the passage Derrida has just quoted.

它通过我们看到的方式来,调动和使用那些大构成单位，但请注意列维在这篇文章里所说的,与德里达引用的，形成了鲜明的对比。

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Delta H of formation means the enthalpy of this compound minus the enthalpy of its constituent elements in their most stable state at room temperature and pressure.

生成焓就是这种组分,的焓减去它的所有组成元素,在室温和常压下处于,其最稳定的状态时的焓。

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I just want to flag the thought that you can be the very same hunk of stuff, even if some of the constituent atoms have changed along the way.

我只是要树立这样一个观点,就算在过程中，改变了一些原子,还能是同一件物品。

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You can see in the New World with maize being important how America has become a corn dominated society, even though it's still true that we raise wheat, we raise other things in the United States, and we can import different foods, corn has become an incredibly important constituent of the diet in the U.S.

你能发现玉米在美洲大陆的重要性,那美洲是怎样变成主食玉米的社会的呢,尽管我们仍然种植小麦,在美国也种植其他粮食,而且我们能进口各种不同食物,但是玉米还是变成了,美国人食谱中不可代替的部分

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