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植物
Plants
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
现在最好的意见是，有许多形态没有足够的区别来区分植物或动物，而就普通的植物和动物而言，给它们下一个定义比以往任何时候都困难得多。
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The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
重要的是，我们现在有了对各种动物、植物、微生物以及人类进行测序的工具。我们还没有完成人类序列并不重要。
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
他植树是为了造福下一代。
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
如果你用有机材料培植土壤，植物就会生长得很好。
One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade.
一代人种树，另一代人乘凉。
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
许多年前，人们就知道植物和动物是由不同的物质组成的:植物是由三种元素组成的化学物质——碳、氢和氧;四种元素之一的动物，氮被添加到其他三种元素中。
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
在没有化石植物证据的情况下，假定植物科或任何属曾经是更大、分布更广的，这是合乎哲学的吗?占据了一个连续的区域?