The term kleptoplasty is used to describe the practice of using hijacked genes to create nutrients from sunlight.

盗食质体这个术语用以描述利用被劫持的基因从阳光中制造营养物质的做法。

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These were some of the words that Nature readers used to describe their experience of art-science collaborations in a series of articles on partnerships between artists and researchers.

在《自然》杂志刊登的艺术家和研究人员之间合作关系的系列文章中，读者用这些词来描述艺术与科学交融之感。

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Parmesan is a generic term used to describe a family of hard Italian cheeses.

巴尔马干酪是一个用来描述一类坚硬的意大利奶酪的通用名称。

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But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.

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Mythology is used to describe stories that deal with The birth, the life events of gods and demi-gods, sometimes legendary heroes, but narrating a sequence of events.

神话是指一些这样的故事,它们有关神或者半人半神的诞生及生平，也有时候是一些传奇英雄，讲述他们的一系列事迹。

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And these are all spoken of in terms that are analogous to terms used to describe God as the shepherd of his flock of Israel and in control of life and death and so on.

这些说到的过程,和对于上帝的形容相类似，我们形容上帝为,他的“以色列族群的牧羊人“,控制着他们的生死。

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One of these can be used to describe CO2 levels over the past 800, 000 years.

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Will the term be used to describe what we have built for the next 50 years?

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Cloud computing, put broadly, is a term used to describe any service available on the internet.

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