- When bodies process various substances, you can say they metabolize them. For example, when your body takes in calories, it metabolizes them, putting them to good use.
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- vt. 使新陈代谢；使变形
- vi. 新陈代谢
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1. Free radicals can damage vital cell components, and our bodies produce them naturally as we metabolize food.
自由基会在人类新陈代谢过程中自然产生，它能破坏细胞的活力。
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2. Remarkably, there exist simple scaling laws relating animal metabolism to body mass. Larger animals live longer; but they also metabolize slower, as manifested in slower heart rates.
值得注意的是，自然界存在着关于动物体型和新陈代谢的一套简单比例法则：体型更大的动物活得更久，但新陈代谢也更慢，表现出来就是心跳会更慢。
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3. But our bodies metabolize only a small fraction of them.
但是我们的身体只能代谢一小部分气体。
- metabolize (v.) 1887 (transitive), 1934 (intransitive), from Greek metabole "a change" (see metabolism) + -ize. Related: Metabolized; metabolizing.
me·tab·ol·ize ( BrE also -ise ) / məˈtæbəlaɪz ; NAmE məˈtæbəlaɪz / verb metabolizesth ( biology 生 ) to turn food, minerals, etc. in the body into new cells, energy and waste products by means of chemical processes 新陈代谢（将食物、矿物质等通过化学过程转换成新细胞、能量和废料） metabolise metabolised metabolises metabolising metabolize metabolized metabolizes metabolizing me·tab·ol·ize / məˈtæbəlaɪz ; NAmE məˈtæbəlaɪz /
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