And if you could have dinner with anyone living or nonliving who would it be?

如果你能和任何人吃晚餐，不管那人是否在世，你会想和谁？

Every living thing has DNA, from plants to animals, to bacteria even to viruses which was once considered 'nonliving'.

从植物到动物到细菌，每一种生物都有 DNA，甚至病毒曾被认为是“无生命的”，也有 DNA。

It was not until the 1940s that the concept of the 'environment' embracing all living and nonliving things developed.

直到 20 世纪 40 年代，涵盖所有生物和非生物的“环境”概念才得到发展。

Finally — and as strange as it may sound — all connective tissues are mostly composed of nonliving material, called the extracellular matrix.

最后——听起来可能有点奇怪——所有结缔组织大多是由被称为细胞外基质的无生命物质组成的。

This may mean that we would be able to connect the dots between nonliving and living and understand how chemistry is translating and transforming and transitioning into a lifelike behavior.

这或许意味着我们能够连接生命界与非生命界，理解化学物质如何转变、转化、过渡为生命的形态。

Things like nitrogen, carbon, and oxygen move from nonliving parts of the environment — air, for example — to living things like plants and animals, and then back again to the environment.

像氮、碳和氧这样的物质从环境的非生物部分——比如空气——转移到植物和动物等生物身上，然后再回到环境中。

This may mean that we would be able to obtain the recipe of life, if you will, and having this recipe would enable us to connect the dots between these two states of living and nonliving.

这也许意味着我们能掌握生命的配方，如能这么说的话，拥有了生命的配方，我们就能连接生命与非生命两种状态。

You might remember from our episodes on tissues that blood is a type of connective tissue, which means it's made of living cells suspended in a nonliving matrix, which in this case is the fluid ground substance called plasma.

你可能还记得我们关于组织的剧集，血液是一种结缔组织，这意味着它是由悬浮在非生物基质中的活细胞组成的，在这种情况下，非生物基质是一种叫做血浆的流体基础物质。

Just like other connective tissues, blood develops from mesenchyme and is made up of cells surrounded by an extracellular nonliving matrix: In this case, the ground substance is your blood plasma, which has protein fibers floating around in it.

就像其他结缔组织一样，血液由间充质发育而成，由细胞外非生物基质包围的细胞组成：在这种情况下，基础物质是你的血浆，其中漂浮着蛋白质纤维。

There is a decisive difference between a living and a nonliving thing, for example a rose and a stone, just as there is a decisive difference between a plant and an animal, for example a rose and a horse.

生物和非生物之间存在决定性的区别， 例如玫瑰和石头， 就像植物和动物之间存在决定性的区别一样， 例如玫瑰和马。