They use solar power and a purification technology called reverse osmosis.

它们使用的是太阳能及逆渗透的净化技术。

Osmosis is the movement of something like water across a selectively permeable barrier.

渗透是指像水这样的东西跨越选择性渗透的屏障的运动。

Teachers can imagine that they learned to read through osmosis when they were children.

老师们可以想象，他们小时候是通过潜移默化学会阅读的。

It's a process called osmosis, and we can demonstrate that with these eggs.

这个过程叫做渗透，我们可以用这些鸡蛋来证明。

So, they don't need to drink, they satisfy their water and salt needs by osmosis.

所以，它们不需要喝水，它们通过渗透来满足他们对水和盐的需求。

To make saliva, cells pump out salts, and because of osmosis, that draws out water.

为了产生唾液，细胞会涌出盐，由于渗透作用，就会排出液体水。

Although I would probably never have been an accountant, he wanted me to learn via osmosis.

虽然我从来不想成为会计，但他仍希望我借助这种渗透作用学习一些会计方面的常识。

Osmosis is very similar to diffusion, but just for water.

渗透作用与扩散作用非常相似，但只是针对水。

Osmosis out of a cell can cause big changes.

细胞外的渗透作用会引起很大的变化。

All of these things require the movement of substances by either diffusion, osmosis, or active transport.

所有这些都需要物质通过扩散、渗透或主动运输的方式进行运动。

And to not having to watch Sheldon demonstrate his reverse osmosis machine that converts urine into drinking water.

也敬不用看着谢尔顿演示 他怎么用反向渗透机 把尿转换成饮用水。

The way in which her general style was described to me was as sort of decision making by osmosis.

据别人向我描述，她的总体风格是一种渗透决策。

Typically, the process of osmosis works...

通常，渗透过程起作用. . .

We learn racial prejudice and stereotypes through a kind of cultural osmosis.

我们通过一种文化渗透学习种族偏见和刻板印象。

In America, osmosis will have you knowing men's sports storylines.

在美国，渗透会让你了解男子体育的故事情节。

One really interesting adaptation is the ability to reverse the process of osmosis.

一个非常有趣的适应是能够逆转渗透过程。

And osmosis is where you have two chambers that separate two levels of salt concentration.

渗透是你有两个腔室，将两个盐浓度水平分开。

I mean, it's like throug h-- via osmosis, I get everything that I need.

我的意思是，这就像通过渗透作用，我得到了我需要的一切。

Now reverse osmosis, it's the reverse of this natural process.

现在反渗透，它是这个自然过程的逆过程。

They absorb water through their skin and gills by the process of osmosis, then extract the little salt from that water.

它们通过皮肤和鳃的渗透作用吸收水分，然后从水中提取少量的盐分。