A germ is the earliest form of a living thing.

胚芽是生物的最早形式。

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By irritability we mean the ability of a living thing to respond to stimuli.

所谓应激性，系指生物对刺激作出反应的能力。

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Mendel, the first person to trace the characteristics of successive generations of a living thing, was not a world-renowned scientist of his day.

孟德尔是研究生物世代间的遗传性状的第一人。但是他在当时并不是个有名的科学家。

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This then leads to a very different discussion because A play is not a piece of text. A play is a living thing That is meant to be performed by actors in a particular setting. Different actors with different directors interpret the words of Shakespeare to the best. We can construct those words differently.

这引起一场很不同的讨论,因为一部戏剧不是一篇文章，而是活物,是要被演员在特定的场景下,表演出来的，不同的演员,和导演尽可能去诠释莎士比亚的文字,我们可以以不同方式建构这些文字。

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