The latest scare is the computer keyboard: supposedly it contains nearly 70 times more microbes than the average lavatory seat.

最新的吓人的东西是电脑键盘： 据说， 平均而言， 比起一般马桶座， 键盘细菌的数量多了将近70倍。

These microbes enable the soil to have more nitrogen, which plants need to live and they remain quite active during the winter.

这些微生物可以让土壤中植物生长所需的氮含量增加，在冬天让植物仍保持活跃。

Many scientists now attribute much of the warming of early Earth to oxygen-intolerant microbes—methanogens—that produce the greenhouse gas methane.

现在，许多科学家把早期造成地球变暖的大部分原因归结于厌氧微生物——产甲烷菌——它产生了温室气体甲烷。

Photosynthetic life is impossible there because sunlight is completely absent, but life such as the microbes that flourish deep within earth may still be possible.

因为那里完全没有阳光，所以不可能有光合作用的生命，但像在地球深处蓬勃生长的微生物之类的生命可能仍然存在。

For instance, they were used to stain previously invisible microbes and bacteria, allowing researchers to identify such bacilli as tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax.

例如，用它们来给以前看不见的微生物和细菌染色，从而使研究人员能够识别出结核、霍乱和炭疽等杆菌。

It may be biological processes that occur in the soil in the winter, that cause increased shrub growth in the summer, and here's how: there are "microbes", microscopic organisms that live in the soil.

可能是冬季土壤中发生的生物过程，导致夏季灌木生长增加，原因如下：有“微生物”，即生活在土壤中的微生物。

Earth is home for all living things—humans, animals, plants, and even tiny microbes.

地球是所有生物的家园——人类、动物、植物、甚至是微小的微生物。

On the one hand, there are tiny microbes and they can only be seen through a microscope.

一方面，有微小的微生物，只有在显微镜下才能看到它们。

It allows the temperature of the soil to remain warm enough for microbes to remain active.

它使土壤温度保持足够的温度，并让微生物保持活跃。

Strychnine is used to kill rodents and pyrrolizidine alkaloids have significant activity against microbes.

士的宁用于杀灭啮齿动物，而吡咯里西啶类生物碱则具有较强的杀菌活性。

Ignorant humans, smart microbes.

无知的人类，聪明的微生物。

Happily, these microbes are mostly harmless.

幸运地是，这些微生物大部分都是无害的。

Back in the lab, they cultured microbes from that mud.

回到实验室后，科学家培养了从泥巴里找到的细菌。

Robbed of its microbes, the wart gradually vanishes.

微生没有了，疣就渐渐消失了。

Some of the microbes in our gut are there for a good reason.

我们肠道内的微生物对我们是有益的。

Oil-eating bacterial microbes are working at a fast pace.

食油细菌正在高速的工作。

The microbes seem to have incorporated arsenic into their DNA.

这种微生物似乎能将砷吸收到 DNA 中。

The new E. coli work faster than other fuel-producing microbes.

新型大肠杆菌比其他生产燃料的微生物快速。

The microbes decompose the organic matter, using up the oxygen.

而微生物分解有机物需要氧气。

The others were fed an ordinary diet, not fortified with microbes.

另一组则以不用微生物强化的一般食物喂食。

Chlorine is really good at killing microbes in swimming pools.

用氯消灭泳池中的细菌确实很好。

He flew from country to country, battling murderous mutant microbes.

他从一个国家飞向另一个国家，与杀人的变异细菌进行斗争。

Microbes don't just make themselves at home in the intestines, however.

然而微生物并不只是在肠道里安营扎寨。

Biologists, meanwhile, have recruited enzymes and microbes to do the job.

与此同时，生物学家们使用了酶与细菌来完成此项工作。

Scientists are wondering how to improve health by meddling with your microbes.

科学家们正在研究如何通过干涉自身微生物活动来提高身体的健康。

Recently, some scientists have theorized that it all goes back to microbes.

最近，一些科学家创设出新的理论，声称这一切都应追溯至微生物。

Engineered E. coli convert sugar to butanol 10 times faster than other microbes.

基因修饰的大肠杆菌把糖转化为丁醇的能力比其他微生物快10倍。

Gordon has also looked at the role microbes in the gut play in combating diseases.

戈登也研究过肠道微生物在防治疾病中能够发挥何种作用的问题。

Davies: Most microbes haven't been characterized, let alone their genes sequenced.

戴维斯：多数微生物都没有被描述出特性，更不用说它们的基因排序了。

TIREM has shown that AAPB are ubiquitous, and constitute 7% of the oceans' microbes.

TIREM技术表明AAPB无所不在，而且占到海洋微生物总数的7%。