So, if we're going to go to the moon, we're going to go to Mars,we want to be able to produce oxygen, structural metals and photovoltaic materials from in situ resources.

如果我们要去月球上，我们要去火星上，我们则必须要制造,氧气，结构金属和光电材料,就在原地制造。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They're studying practical things like marble work, and metal work, and copper work, and not just shipbuilding.

他们学习一些实用的东西,比如大理石打磨,金属冶炼和铜器制造,并且不仅仅是造船术

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So, practitioners who understood what we would know to be chemistry were highly valued in that society. And then, you may expand it to other chemical processes, dyeing of cloth, glassmaking, and metals extraction.

所以，理解我们所知为化学的,先行者们，在那个社会是,非常宝贵的，当时，你可能将其扩展到另一个化学过程，如布料的染色，玻璃的制造，还有金属提取。

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