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，能成为社会的黏合剂，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，成为某种社会黏合剂。

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

蟑螂可以食用不同的有机物，包括头、死皮、黏合剂纸张。

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：硅氢氧化。

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.

它是将我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。

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

我在帮助下做到了，但开始重新陷入那种宇宙般的黏合剂之类的东西。

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，让我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.

正如我们在本系列中所见，门罗有时是维系政府团结的黏合剂。

It has the enormous subjective value of serving as a binder, of holding together a divided individual.

它具有巨大的主观价值， 充当了一种黏合剂，将一个分裂的个体凝聚在一起。