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Перевод: protoplasm

[существительное]
протоплазма

Тезаурус:

1. If you took a living body and cut it up into ever smaller pieces, you would eventually come down to specks of pure protoplasm.
2. Tests conducted in southern India by Dr Singh, head of the Department of Botany at Annamalai University, resulted in the speeding up of the movement of protoplasm in plant cells by the application of harmonious music from various instruments two metres from the plants for half an hour.
3. When his characters make love - or perform Mr. Lawrence's equivalent for love-making - and they do nothing else - they not only lose all the amenities, refinements and graces which many centuries have built up in order to make love-making tolerable; they seem to reascend the metamorphoses of evolution, passing backward beyond ape and fish to some hideous coitus of protoplasm.
4. Protoplasm wasn't like any other substance; it was vital, vibrant, throbbing, pulsating, "irritable" (a schoolmarmish way of saying responsive).
5. Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood, even babyhood of ritual and civilization, but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that "amorphous protoplasm" which makes up the human egg.
6. Speaking of the cinema in the Marie Lloyd piece, he accuses it of being "rapid-breeding" and reducing its audience to a "state of amorphous protoplasm".
7. Not only humans, of course, but also plants, animals, trees even raw protoplasm.
8. To forge that strange blend of protoplasm and the fluidium of the warp - or more exactly, to quicken it, since its ultimate origin must surely lie elsewhere, in some dire biological crucible.
9. A few years ago, if you had asked almost any biologist what was special about living things as opposed to nonliving things, he would have told you about a special substance called protoplasm.
10. At one time in the last century, a real-life counterpart of Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger thought that the "globigerina ooze" at the bottom of the sea was pure protoplasm.
11. The idea extended from chemistry into biology, so that "protoplasm" was envisaged, not as a giant molecule such as Ehrlich suggested, but as a colloidal system of indefinite composition.
12. It has also been pointed out that there are many changes in the fundamental properties of water (and therefore presumably of protoplasm) at this level.
13. Eliot knew the technical sense of this word: "The horde is the protoplasm of the social domain"