Because these molecules can span across the membrane from outside to inside, they're in just the right position to take messages that they receive from outside the cell and transmit them through the membrane into the cells internal apparatus, and that's what they do.

因为这些分子能穿过细胞膜,连通细胞内外,它们所在的位置非常适于接受信息,它们能将外界获得的信息,通过细胞膜传递给细胞器,这正是它们的功能

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We receive the electric signals from each tip, we tell which neuron is listening to, we get that color piece.

我们从每个电极端接收到电子信号，我们说明去听哪个神经元，这样就得到了一张彩色图片。

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So, I wrote some very simple software to receive an email from my BlackBerry and then send it out to an email list of some people I put on that list, with my friends and my family on it.

所以我编写一些很简单的软件,来接收我的黑莓手机发来的邮件,然后将其转发给一个邮件列表，这个列表上有我的朋友和家人。

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How do your kidneys know what the status is of inside your blood, They know that because they receive signals from the endocrine system and the nervous system.

肾脏何以得知血液组分的状态,它们能够知道这些是因为它们接收到,来自内分泌系统和神经系统的信号

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It turns out that cells receive signals or information from the rest of the body in a variety of ways, but there's one way in particular that's a very useful way for thinking about how cells receive most information.

研究证明,细胞内有很多,接收体内其他部位信号或者信息的方式,但有一种特定的方法十分有用,这种方法使细胞能最大程度地接受信息

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