But sexual reproduction in the microcosmos is not like sexual reproduction for the rest of us.

但在观界中，有性繁殖与我们其他生物有性繁殖不同。

In the microcosmos, that's not always how it works.

在观界中，情况并不总是这样。

By this point on your journey, you should already know that nothing is usual in the microcosmos.

到你这个阶段，你应该已经知道观界里没有什么是寻常。

The journey from microcosmos  to microscope has many stops— including these jars.

观界到显镜中有许多停留点——包括这些罐子。

They thought that each person was like a world in miniature, or " microcosmos" , which is a reflection of the " macro-cosmos" .

他们认为每个人都是一个缩影界， 或者说是“观宇宙” ，是“大宇宙” 反映。

The most common form of asexual cellular reproduction, and the one you are most likely to know about, in the microcosmos, is binary fission.

在观界中， 最常见无性细胞繁殖形式，也是你最有可能了解，就是二分裂。

And perhaps with each of those answers, what we will learn is what the microcosmos  keeps teaching us again and again: that simple, is in fact,   quite a complicated way to be.

而也许， 通过每一个答案，我们将学到观界一次又一次教给我们东西：其实，简单是一种相当复杂存在方式。

If I were to tell you that this is only the very surface of the iceberg of complexity of reproduction in the microcosmos, I hope that, by this point, you would believe me, because it is.

如果我告诉你， 这仅仅是生物界繁殖复杂性这一冰山一角，我希望到目前为止你会相信我，因为确实如此。