Okay on the surface of it it is easy to set out arguments logic book style, let's try this one.

表面上，把它们设定成逻辑的课本形式很简单，我们来试试这个。

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Spreading a little oil on the surface of the food material or using flour on the surface of it.

在食材表面涂一层油脂，或在食材表面裹一层面粉等。

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On the surface of it, this argument seems sound, but when weighing it thoroughly in the mind, we would find its absurdity.

这个论点表面上看似乎合理，但仔细权衡以后，会发现它的荒谬之处。

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Crews then turned to placing a cap over the pipe -- not to stop it, but to direct at least some of the oil to ships on the surface.

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They might ingest extracellular antigen, presented pieces of it on their cell surface in the context of MHC-2.

它们可以吞噬胞外抗原,根据细胞表面的,主要组织相容性抗原-2

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So, it doesn't need to bind to a receptor on the surface of the cell in order to work because the molecule can actually enter the cell directly.

所以无需与细胞表面受体相结合来起效,因为这些分子能直接进入细胞

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It permanently blocks a key enzyme on the surface of the flu virus, stopping it from spreading to other cells.

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Four of the genetic substitutions were in hemagglutinin, a protein on the surface of H5N1 that helps it to enter host cells.

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And, as a bonus, it is the protein that locks on to the surface of a host cell before the virus enters it.

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