Kind of like Sheldon's ant farm.

有点像谢尔顿的蚂蚁农场。

This could be an ant farm. This could be a microscope or anything.

有可能是“蚂蚁农场” 也可能是显微镜或别的什么。

Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew they produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield.

如同在蚂蚁圈养一些被称为蚜虫的虫子以获得它们所产出的蜜汁一样，谷歌圈养我们也是为了获取我们数字生活所产出的数据。

As an analogy, if bacteria were ants, then a microcolony would be a tiny group of ants, each doing it's own thing, whereas a biofilm would be an ant farm with complex tunnels and rooms, and each ant carrying out a specialized task.

打个比方，如果细菌是蚂蚁的话，菌落就相当于分工明确的蚁群，而生物膜就相当于一个有着复杂通道和小房子的蚂蚁房，其中的每只蚂蚁都有自己特殊的任务。