In modern parlance, we’d say that the worker bees were helping blood kin, because blood kin are genetically related.

按照现在的说法，我们应该说工蜂帮助的是自己的血亲，因为血亲的基因具有相关性。

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'It' s terrible, once you' ve got a man into your blood!' she said.

“你一旦深爱了一个男子时， 那是可怕的！”她说。

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查太莱夫人的情人

劳伦斯, 大卫 赫伯特

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lawrence, David Herbert

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America’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirm that children’s blood today contains dozens of chemicals that did not exist two decades earlier, including many gene-damaging compounds known to cause cancer and a host of other diseases.

美国疾病控制与预防中心确认当今儿童的血液中含有二十年前并不存在的数十种化学物质，其中包括许多已知会导致癌症和一系列其他疾病的破坏基因的化合物。

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Reciprocity can be complex, but an evolutionary perspective has cleared the path to understanding, just the same way it did in the case of blood kinship and altruism.

互惠行为可能非常复杂，但从进化的角度理解扫清了一切障碍。建立在互惠行为基础上的利他主义与建立在血缘关系基础上的利他主义并没有多少区别。

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The operation performed on DeBakey involved putting him on cardiac bypass and opening the aorta, the artery that carries blood from the heart to most of the major organs of the body.

狄见贝基所接受的手术需要先建立心脏旁路，再将从心脏向身体多数重要器官输送血液的主动脉切开。

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Only rarely do scenes of massive displacement of the civilian population make it onto our television screens, because, unlike bombs and suicide attacks, displacement does not generate the blood, fire, or screams that constitutes compelling footage.

平民大规模流离失所的镜头很少出现在电视荧屏上，因为与炸弹和自杀式袭击不同，流离失 所不会带来鲜血、火焰或哀嚎等抓人眼球的画面。

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The image on the computer screen is shocking: a man, lying on a hospital bed, his head bandaged, with long trickles of blood running from the top of his scalp.

电脑屏幕上的画面是令人震惊的：一个男人，躺在医院的病床上，他的头上绑着绷带，血不断地从他的头顶上淌下来。

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