sense light

基本解释

These usually function in the eyes to sense light.
这些视蛋白通常在眼睛里有感光功能。
Most had extensive damage in one eye, and some had such limited vision that they could only sense light, count fingers or perceive hand motions.
其中大多数患者的一只眼睛有广泛性损伤，其中一些人视力非常有限，只有光感、只能能数手指头或感知手的运动。
Now, researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered in fish yet another type of cell that can sense light and contribute to vision.
现在，约翰·霍普金斯大学医学院（Johns Hopkins School of Medicine）的研究人员在鱼的体内发现了第四种能够感知光并参与视觉形成的细胞。

It can also sense light. The antenna sends information to the brain of the butterfly, controlling its behavior.
It's in this light that the introduction, I think, of Galileo in this simile starts to make a little more sense.
就此而论，这个比喻中，关于伽利略的介绍开始有了点意义。
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Here you've got a red light which doesn't seem to enter into this sense of the arbitrary and differential.
这里，红灯看起来并没有,任意性和差异性。
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In 2002 MIT professors started a not-for-profit called BioBricks that has collected 2, 000 biological components, including gene sequences that sense light, produce light, send messages between cells and switch cell functions on and off.
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