Cuboidal cells are — you guessed it — cube-ish shaped, about as tall as they are wide.

立方体细胞——你猜对了——呈立方体形状，大约和它们的宽度一样高。

And as if they were cuboidal cells that got stretched tall, their nuclei also are stretched into an ellipse.

由于它们是立方体细胞，被拉伸得很高，它们的细胞核也被拉伸成椭圆形。

A stratified cuboidal tissue, meanwhile, would have layers of cube-shaped cells, like the linings of the ducts that leak sweat and spit.

与此同时，分层的立方体组织将具有立方体形状的细胞层，就像泄漏汗液和唾液的管道衬里一样。

So those cells can't be flat — they've got to be cuboidal or columnar to accommodate more room for taking care of business.

所以这些细胞不能是平的，它们必须是立方体或柱状的，以容纳更多的空间来处理业务。

We looked at how proper epithelial tissue is classified by both layering — simple or stratified — and shape — squamous, cuboidal, or columnar — and how the structure of these tissue types match their function.

我们研究了上皮组织如何通过分层（简单或分层）和形状（鳞状、立方体或柱状）进行分类，以及这些组织类型的结构如何与其功能相匹配。

And there are three basic shapes — squamous, cuboidal, and columnar — and they're pretty easy to tell apart because (unlike most terminology you'll be exposed to in this course) their names actually describe what they look like!

有三种基本形状，鳞状，立方体和柱状。它们很容易区分，因为（与本课程中您将接触到的大多数术语不同）它们的名称实际上描述了它们的样子。