They studied 2,234 synapses between cortical nerve cells of a type called pyramidal neurons, which have thousands of synapses each.

他们研究了2234个皮质神经细胞之间的突触，这种突触被称锥神经元，每个锥神经元有数千个突触。

It appears as though the pyramidal structure was buried deliberately centuries ago.

看起来金字塔结构似乎是几个世纪前被故意掩埋的。

It's like, you know, geometric shapes, squares, circles, pyramidal, octagon, whatever.

就像是你知道的那些几何形状，正方形、圆形、金字塔形、八边形之类的。

Why do we call it pyramidal?

我们称之金字塔?

Each hippocampus contains a smaller region known as the CA3 area. In humans, some 1.7 million nerve cells — called pyramidal cells — reside there.

每个海马包含一个较小的区域，称CA3区。在人类，那里大约有170万神经细胞，称锥细胞。

Um, but if, if you notice, uh, the capital C, the bottom of the large square, uh, it looks like a pyramidal formation too.

呃，不过如果你注意看的话，那个大正方形的顶部，也就是C字的底部，看起来也像是一座金字塔状的结构。

Even though human pyramidal cells had fairly few links, those cells sent steady and strong signals to each other. Mouse pyramidal cells did not.

尽管人类锥细胞的连接相对较少，但这些细胞之间传递的信号却是稳定而强烈的。小鼠的锥细胞则不是这样。

Well, that's an interesting note, George, because if H is a pyramidal structure of some kind, it sits right on the wall of the building.

嗯，乔治，这倒是有趣的一点，因如果H是某种金字塔状的结构，它正好坐落在建筑物的墙面上。

But much of what we know about these cells has come from studies in mice. And those animals have only about 110,000 pyramidal cells in each CA3 area.

但我们对这些细胞的大部分了解来自于小鼠的研究。而这些动物的每个CA3区域只有大约11万个多锥细胞。

The Indian had selected for this desirable purpose one of those steep, pyramidal hills, which bear a strong resemblance to artificial mounds, and which so frequently occur in the valleys of America.

印第安人了这个理想的目的选择了那些陡峭的金字塔形山丘之一，这些山丘与人造土丘非常相似，并且经常出现在美洲山谷。

To carry out their search for filopodia, the trio used a sensitive microscopy technique called eMAP.They studied 2,234 synapses between cortical nerve cells of a type called pyramidal neurons (pictured), which have thousands of synapses each.

了寻找丝状伪足，三人组使用了一种名增强型分子活性图谱的敏感显微技术。 他们研究了2234个皮层神经细胞之间的突触， 这些神经细胞被称锥神经元（如图所示）， 每个有数千个突触。

These rhombs have certain angles, and the three which form the pyramidal base of a single cell on one side of the comb, enter into the composition of the bases of three adjoining cells on the opposite side.

这些菱形有一定的角度， 在梳子的一侧形成单个细胞锥基部的三个菱形，进入对面三个相邻细胞基部的组成。

And I won't walk you through the whole story unless you insist upon it, but we came to the realization that most of your predictions are occurring inside individual neurons, especially the most common neuron, the pyramidal cells.

我不会详细讲述整个故事， 除非你坚持要听，但我们的认识是， 大多数预测实际上发生在单个神经元内部，尤其是最常见的神经元——锥细胞。