A protein is a chain of chemical units called amino acids.

蛋白质是一个种被称为氨基酸的化学单位链。

They're polymers, made of long chains of repeating chemical units.

它们是聚合物，由长链重复的化学单元组成。

Polymers are long molecules made up of chemical units that repeat over and over.

聚合物是由不断重复的化学单元组成的长分子。

The phrase the building blocks of life refers to the most basic biological and chemical units needed to support living plants and animals.

生命的构成要素指的是支持活体动植物所需的最基本生物及化学单位。

Earth's primordial soup lacked the building blocks of life – a phrase describing the most basic biological and chemical units needed to support living things, elements like oxygen and carbon.

地球原始汤缺乏生命的构成要素——这个短语描述的是支持生物所需的最基本生物及化学单位，如氧和碳等元素。

The division's prospects could brighten further if talks between OMV and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) aimed at uniting Borealis and Borouge, the Emirati giant's chemicals unit, succeed.

如果 OMV 和阿布扎比国家石油公司 (ADNOC) 旨在合并北欧化工和阿联酋化工巨头博禄 (Borouge) 的谈判取得成功，该部门的前景可能会进一步光明。