After all, the whale is a living system.

鲸鱼毕竟是一个活物。

If you look at the soil, it's a living biological system.

仔细看看土壤，你会发现它是一个活体生物系统。

She's 8 years old, and she loves them. It's not cheap to maintain a live mowing system.

她已经8岁了，她很喜欢他们。养活这些活羊割草系统并不便宜。

If you think about a living system, like a human being, there's just so many different things going on.

如果你思考一个生命系统，就像一个人一样，有太多不同的事情在发生。

Good, bad, or neutral--- spontaneous mutations are not easy to detect in a living system.

好的、坏的或中性的——在生命系统中不容易检测到自发突变。

This was a living system based not on photosynthesis but on chemosynthesis, an arrangement that biologists would have dismissed as preposterous had anyone been imaginative enough to suggest it.

这种生命体系的基础不是光合作用，而是化学合成。要是哪个想像力丰富的人提出这种安排，生物学家们肯定会认为是很荒谬的。

So we wanted to understand the biological program running inside an embryonic stem cell, and understanding the computation performed by a living system starts with asking a devastatingly simple question: What is it that system actually has to do?

所以我们想要了解在 ES 细胞中运行的生物程序，而且，了解该生物系统中所运行的计算始于提出一个极为简单的问题：这个系统到底需要做什么？