Straddling the boundary between the sacred and the profane, they can be great social unifiers and dividers.

它游荡在神圣与世俗的边界，能成为社会的黏合剂，也能让社会分化。

Cockroaches can eat a variety of organic matter, including hair, dead skin, adhesives, and paper.

蟑螂用不同的有机物，包括头发、死皮、黏合剂和纸。

Guilt, in other words, can help hold a cooperative species together. It is a kind of social glue.

换句话，维护一个群体的合作性，成为某种社会黏合剂。

It has the enormous subjective value of serving as a binder, of holding together a divided individual.

它具有巨大的主观价值， 充当了一种黏合剂，将一个分裂的个体凝聚在一起。

It is composed of what sounds like a bizarre mixture: fly-ash, a fine-grained waste product from coal-fired power stations; carbon nanotubes, cylindrical molecules made of elemental carbon; and two binding agents, sodium silicate and sodium hydroxide.

煤灰，火力发电厂排放的细颗粒废弃物；碳纳米管，即柱状的碳分子；还有两种黏合剂：硅酸钠和氢氧化钠。