They're derived from a precursor called triacylglyceride, which is as glycerol molecule with three fatty acid chains dangling off of it.

它们来源于一种叫三酰甘油的前体,由甘油分子上连接了,三个脂肪酸链构成

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And then linked to the glycerol instead of a third fatty acid chain is a water soluble molecule, like a salt.

但连到甘油上的第三个基团不是脂肪酸链,而是一种水溶性的分子,像盐一样

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Fatty acid chains are fat molecules, they behave, if you have a lot of them in solution like oil.

脂肪酸链就是脂肪分子,它们看上去好像,如果你见过富含脂类的溶液,比如油

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They have two fatty acid chains and so these are the oily like parts of the molecule, the molecules that behave like oil.

它们含有两条脂肪酸链,这是部分分子具有油脂的属性,使磷脂分子具有油脂的属性

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The fascinating part about this layer is that it solves the problem for phospholipids about how to exist in water when half of you wants to be in oil, and that the water soluble part of the top leaflet here, of the top points up into the water, and the fatty acid chains point down.

这层膜的迷人之处在于,它解决了磷脂,如何存在于水中和油脂中的问题,水溶性的顶端部分,向上插入水中,而脂肪链则指向下

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