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Animal and Machine

Animal body is most likely comparable to certain machine such as a train engine. In fact, animal body is a machine and it composes of many parts. Each part has its certain role and its special structure makes it suitable for the role. All parts rely on and cooperate with each other in order to make the machine accomplish its whole task. The engine must have fuel such as coal, wood and other flammable materials. Consumption of fuel provides the machine power and energy. The animal body also needs fuel supplement, which is called food, to provide energy to the animal. In order to burn fuel in the engine and oxidize food in animal, oxygen is a necessity. Train engine consists of special parts: stoves for getting in and burning fuel, tunnels for carrying steam, wheels for making engine run, and chimneys for exhausting waste gas. Similarly, animal body also consists of various parts: gastrointestinal for taking in and absorbing foods, excretory organs for discharging of waste, and arteries and veins for carrying oxygen and storing nutrients in the blood, as well as legs and wings making animal move around.

 

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16. Animal and Machine

The body of an animal may well be compared with some machine like locomotive engine. Indeed, the animal body is a machine. It is a machine composed of many parts. Each part doing some particular kind of work for which particular kind of structure fits it. And all the parts are dependent on each other and work together for the accomplishment of the total business of the machine. The locomotive must be provided with fuel such as coal, or wood, or other combustible substance, the consumption of which furnishes the force or energy of the machine. The animal body must be provided with fuel which is called food, which furnishes similarly the energy of the animal. Oxygen must be provided for the combustion of the fuel in the locomotive and the food in the body. The locomotive is composed of special parts, the firebox for the reception and combustion of fuel, the steam pipe for the carriage of steam, the wheels for local motion, the smokestack for throwing of waste. The animal body is similarly composed of parts, the alimentary cannel for the reception and simulation of food, excretory organs for the throwing of the waste matter, the arteries and veins for the carriage of oxygen and food holding blood, the legs or wings for local motion.

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• Very good translation. -EnLearner- ♀ (112 bytes) () 08/09/2011 postreply 21:40:55

• 謝謝愚公。學習了。 -toast2011- ♀ (92 bytes) () 08/11/2011 postreply 13:28:44