The city is an extraordinary processor of mass and energy and has its own metabolism.

城市是质量和能量的特殊处理器，有着自己的新陈代谢。

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Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism — the way our bodies use digested food for growth and energy.

糖尿病是一种新陈代谢障碍——我们身体吸收食物用以成长和提供能量的方式。

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Such an environment would have to contain the basic ingredients of life — including water, organic carbon and a source of energy to sustain the microbes' metabolism.

这样的火星环境也许包含了一些基本的生命要素——包括水，有机碳和维持微生物新陈代谢的能量源。

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Glucose has to get into cells, that's the main source of energy source that cells use, metabolism of glucose.

但葡萄糖又必须进入细胞,因为它是细胞能量的主要来源,即通过葡萄糖代谢产生能量

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Eliminating free radical production would involve completely redesigning aspects of our metabolism, especially the way we use oxygen to extract energy from food.

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In a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, green tea extract increased energy expenditure, which is a measure of metabolism, plus it had a significant effect on fat oxidation, or how much fat your body burns.

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