In The Epic of Gilgamesh they were the ones who got the plant of eternal youth. It's etiological.

在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中,蛇得到了可以永葆年轻的植物，所以蜕皮。

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And indeed, it's expressly stated by God that Humans are to be given every fruit bearing tree and seed bearing plant, fruits and grains for food.

而上帝也确实这样表述过,人们能拥有所有结果的树，结籽的植物，以果实和稻谷为食。

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And then, I have this little image of some plant made out of gears, right?

然后,我们脑海里就会浮现,某种由齿轮构成的植物,对吧

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So, a natural product is something that is made by nature, and often natural products, whether it comes from a plant or a marine organism have some really good, useful properties. And so, one particular compound has anti-tumor properties. So, again, along this line of cancer research.

天然产物是在自然界中生成的,通常一个天然产物，不管是来自植物或者海洋生物,都有些非常好非常实用的性质，其中的一个特殊的化合物,可以治疗癌症,再一次我们又来到癌症研究上。

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So, we have evidence that the king doled out seed for planting, instructed people just exactly when to plant, where to plant, what to plant there, when to fertilize it if they did.

也有证据表明,国王恩赐作物种子,指导人民在何时,何地,耕种何种植物,以及如何在恰当的时间施肥

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Now that seems counterintuitive now because we think that a plant based diet may be more healthy for people than a meat based diet, but remember, that we're fighting off overnutrition and these folks were fighting off undernutrition.

现在看来似乎并非如此,因为我们认为,对于人类来说,植物性饮食比以动物性饮食更为健康,但是请记住,我们正在对抗营养过剩,而这些人们正在和营养不良作斗争

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He then learns the whereabouts of a plant of eternal youth.

他听说，在什么地方，有一种植物，可以让人永葆年轻。

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Fat is not all that much different, but one thing that's happened is the type of fat has changed a lot, and so people are eating less fat from plant sources and more fat from animals sources That's where the saturated fat comes in and high saturated fat intake is not a good thing.

脂肪摄入量相差无几,然而脂肪的种类却发生了很大变化,人们越来越少从植物中摄取脂肪,而更多是从肉类食物中获得,肉类食物中含有饱和脂肪酸,而过多地摄入饱和脂肪酸是有害的

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A plant is a living thing.

一株植物是一个有生命力的实体

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When we think of the kinds of examples of material machines that we've got available to us in the fourteenth century, I try to imagine what would somebody in the fourteenth century think to himself or herself when he entertains the possibility that a plant might just be a machine?

当我们回想14世纪时期的,各种机器,我试着想象,一个生活在14世纪的人,他,或她,在面对一株植物可能,只不过是一台机器的观点时会怎么想

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