We'll uncover how plants work, from their itsy-bitsy cells, to their water-absorbing roots.

我们将揭开植物的工作原理，从微小的细胞到会吸水的根部。

Mabel reduces its ability to suck water out of her cells.

梅布尔降低了它从细胞中吸水的能力。

She was taking on water even faster than normal.

她吸水的速度比平时更快。

Since keratin absorbs water, a thick keratin layer looks white when it's wet.

由于角质吸水，湿润的厚角质层看起来是白色的。

It's a way of getting water out of something that is wet, out of a fabric.

这是一种从湿的东西、织物中吸水的方法。

Smoking them is cheaper than other suitable activities, such as bowling.

吸水烟比其它合适的休闲活动要便宜的多。(例如保龄球)。

More absorbent moss means less flooding downstream, but their ambitions are much bigger.

因包裹而更具吸水性的泥炭藓意味着下游的洪水更少，但项目发起者想要实现更大的目标。

B) Increasing the absorbency of the Spanish rice.

B) 增加西牙大米的吸水性。

Then I looked at the cloth the nurse had spread over the top third of the exam table.

然后看到护士在检查台上部三分之一处盖的那块吸水布。

Shisha bars, where people smoke hookahs on heated outdoor patios, have mushroomed since a 2007 ban on smoking in public places.

从2007年的公共所烟令的发布之后，一个人们能够在温暖的户外吸水烟的地方—水烟酒吧，迅速繁荣起来。

One of the closest relatives to humans, chimpanzees have been seen chewing sticks to create tools designed to soak up water for drinking.

黑猩猩是与人类亲缘关系最近的动物之一，人们曾看到它们通过咀嚼木棍来制造吸水的工具。

This could be due to their absorbent nature, which also leads them to being often served in a sauce.

这可能是由于它们的吸水性，这也导致它们经常在酱汁中食用。

This chair's secret weapon, a super absorbent fabric dipped in a very strong repellant that lasts for six months.

这把椅子的秘密武器是一种超强吸水性的织物，浸入了一种非常强的驱虫剂中，可以持续六个月。

The sixteen-year-old schoolgirl from South Africa has won the grand prize at Google Science Fair for making a super absorbent material from orange peels.

来自南美洲的一名16岁女学生因以橘子皮制作了超级吸水的材料而获得了谷歌科学挑战赛。

You know when Alice was walking through the forest and she sees this caterpillar, this big worm smoking a hookah?

你知道当爱丽丝穿过森林时， 她看到了这只虫，这只吸水烟的大蠕虫吗？

They also extend hair-like filaments called hyphae into the soil which pump water even more efficiently than the tree's own roots.

它们还将像头发一样叫做称为菌丝的细丝延伸到土壤中，它比树木自身的根部吸水效率更高。

They're already dried out, so honey's water-sucking properties don't kill them, and because the spores aren't growing, they aren't affected by the acidity or the antibiotic compounds.

它们已经处于脱水状态了，所以蜂蜜的吸水性并不能奈它们何，另外因为孢子也不生长，所以它们不受酸性或抗菌化合物的影响。

In the last 50 or so years, there have been lots of innovations in toilet paper technology, leading to the ultra soft, absorbent, and strong stuff around today.

在过去的50多年中，卫生纸技术进行了许多创新，导致今天出现了超柔软、吸水和结实的材料。

“Lift up a minute, Stevie, ” his nurse said, and put a large absorbent cloth—it might have been a diaper—under my head, so that my cheek rested on it when I lay back down.

“抬一下，小斯蒂威，”护士说，然后把一块很大的吸水布——很可能就是块尿布片——摆在我脑袋下方的位置，我又躺回去的时候，脸颊就搁在那块布上。

Chimpanzees are now known to manipulate over two dozen implements: clubs to beat with, pestles to grind with, fly whisks, grass stalks with which to fish for termites, spongy leaves to soak up water, rocks as nutcrackers.

现在人们知道黑猩猩可以操纵两打工具：用来敲打的棍棒、用来研磨的杵、飞拂、用来捕白蚁的草秆、用来吸水的海绵叶子、用作胡桃夹子的石头。