Straddling the boundary between the sacred and the profane, they can be great social unifiers and dividers.

它游荡在神圣与世俗的边界，能成社会的黏合剂，也能让社会分化。

Guilt, in other words, can help hold a cooperative species together. It is a kind of social glue.

换句话说，内疚可以维护一个群体的合作性，成某种社会黏合剂。

Cockroaches can eat a variety of organic matter, including hair, dead skin, adhesives, and paper.

蟑螂可以食不同的有机物，包括头发、死皮、黏合剂和纸张。

It is composed of what sounds like a bizarre mixture: fly-ash, a fine-grained waste product from coal-fired power stations; carbon nanotubes, cylindrical molecules made of elemental carbon; and two binding agents, sodium silicate and sodium hydroxide.

煤灰，火力发电厂排放的细颗粒废弃物；碳纳米管，即柱状的碳分子；还有两种黏合剂：硅酸钠和氢氧化钠。

For example, a part of a gene that may give rise to a disease. Cellular machinery is then used to basically glue two ends of the DNA back together.

如说，基因中一个可能引起疾病的片段，然后利细胞机器把 DNA 的两个断点重新“黏合”起来。

I hold it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured membranes of the case, coalescing.

它是来黏合鲸脑窝的那层奇妙的薄膜。

The arrangement essentially is that among the basic building blocks of matter are quarks; these are held together by particles called gluons; and together quarks and gluons form protons and neutrons, the stuff of the atom's nucleus.

这种安排其实说明，在物质的基本材料中有夸克；夸克由名叫胶子的粒子黏合在一起；夸克和胶子一起形成了原子核的材料，即质子和中子。

The plaster that held the stones of the wall together was crumbly from age and from the dampness of the dungeon.

墙壁上黏合石头的灰泥因地牢年久潮湿变得疏松易碎。

In one sense the bond is very strong, it is why water molecules can flow uphill when siphoned and why water droplets on a car hood show such a singular determination to bead with their partners.

在一定意义上，这种黏合是非常牢固的，所以，水分子可以通过吸管流往高处，汽车发动机罩上的小水滴会与伙伴们形成水珠。

The result is a wonderful surface for writing on-papyrus went on being used across the Mediterranean until about a thousand years ago, and indeed gave most European languages their very word for paper.

纸莎草的有机纤维会自然地缠绕在一起，不需要胶水黏合，十分方便。最后们得到的便是一张极适合书写的光滑纸面。莎草纸在地中海地区广泛使，直到一千年前才被替代。莎草纸也是欧洲各国语言中纸一词的来源。

The glue and the microbes form these biofilms that hold soil particles together.

胶状物质和微生物形成了这些生物膜，将土壤颗粒黏合在一起。

But you are the glue of that.

但你就是那个黏合剂。

Sleep is the glue that holds human beings together.

睡眠是维系人类身心健康的黏合剂。

It is the glue that keeps us together in couples, in families, in communities.

它是将们紧紧相连的黏合剂，无论是在伴侣之间、家庭内部还是社区之中。

In a paper published in Nature Communications in April, Tiago Costa, a bacteriologist at Imperial College London, reported that conjugative pili, hair-like filaments that bacteria use to exchange genetic information, can likewise be repurposed to bind them together.

在今年4月发表于《自然通讯》的一篇论文中，伦敦帝国理工学院的细菌学家蒂亚戈·科斯塔报告称，细菌来交换遗传信息的类似头发的细丝——接合菌毛，也可以被重新利来将它们黏合在一起。

And they, in particular in our gut, if they can stick to the wall of our gut, they will actually cause breaks in the glue that holds our individual cells together.

而它们，特别是存在于们肠道中的， 如果能附着在肠道壁上，实际上会破坏将们单个细胞黏合在一起的“胶水” 。

I did it with help, and I'm starting to sink back in to that cosmic, like, glue or something.

在帮助下做到了，但开始重新陷入那种宇宙般的黏合剂之类的东西。

Join the two pieces of wood with strong glue.

【join】强力胶水把两块木头黏合起来。

Empathy is also a social glue, is also, you know, putting us as social human being together.

同理心也是社会黏合剂，让们这些社会人紧密相连。

As we've seen in this series, Monroe was, at times, the glue that kept the administration together.

正如们在本系列中所见，门罗有时是维系政府团结的黏合剂。