The disease causes cartilage- protecting joint surfaces to degrade, allowing painful bone-to-bone contact.

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and you degrade yourself in submitting yourself to it.

从事劳动意味着贬低自己

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You have mechanisms inside your natural mechanisms inside your cell that allow the cells to degrade unwanted RNA sequences.

人体内细胞的这种自然机制,有助于细胞降解不需要的RNA序列

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Of course, if you degrade the messenger RNA at a rapid rate then you'll stop expression of the cells.

如果降解信使RNA的速度很快的话,就会停止细胞的表达

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