梅里克先生瘦而文静，戴着一副眼镜。
把功劳都归给梅里安是不公平的。
梅里达想要掌控自己的生活。
在同一幅插图中，梅里安首次描绘了切叶蚁。
In the same plate, Merian depicted and described leaf-cutter ants for the first time.
这些错误再也不能使梅里安女士的工作作废。
梅里安的绘画激发了艺术家和生态学家的灵感。
《勇敢传说》中的梅里达就是一个很好的例子。
梅里安开始在家里饲养昆虫，主要饲养蝴蝶和毛毛虫。
Merian started raising insects at home, mostly butterflies and caterpillars.
后来有人批评这个细节，说只有一条舌头，但梅里安并没有错。
Some criticized this detail later, saying there was just one tongue, but Merian wasn't wrong.
梅里安注意到了蚂蚁是如何把地下的树叶带到它们的后代那里的。
Merian noted how the ants took the leaves below ground to their young.
梅里安对巨型食鸟蜘蛛、蚂蚁用身体搭建桥梁以及其他细节的看法是正确的。
Merian was correct about the giant bird-eating spiders, ants building bridges with their bodies and other details.
在梅里安去世三百年后，今年6月将在阿姆斯特丹举行的国际研讨会上赞颂她。
Three hundred years after her death, Merian will be celebrated at an international symposium in Amsterdam this June.
梅里安还记下了她从苏里南当地人那里得到的帮助，以及协助她的奴隶或仆人。
Merian also made note of the help she received from the natives of Suriname, as well as slaves or servants that assisted her.
他称赞梅里安在南美探险记录中描述了一只青蛙，并以她的名字给这只小树蛙命名。
He credited Merian for describing a frog in the account of her South American expedition, and named the young tree frog after her.
环保人士曾预测，石油泄漏将导致世界梅里克地区人口减少，但事实证明这一预测毫无根据。
Environmentalists' prediction that the world's Merrick population would decline as a result of the spill has proven unfounded.
这些错误和查尔斯·达尔文或艾萨克·牛顿发表的著名错误观点一样，并不能推翻梅里安女士的工作。
在那时，自然史是很有价值的探索工具，梅里安发现了有关植物和昆虫的真相，这些真相从未为人所知。
At a time when natural history was a valuable tool for discovery, Merian discovered facts about plants and insects that were not previously known.
在写《苏里南昆虫变态图谱》之前，梅里安花了几十年的时间记录欧洲的植物和昆虫，并出版了一系列书籍。
Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books.
查尔斯·达尔文的朋友亨利·沃尔特·贝茨观察到了这个现象，并在1863年将此记入书中，证明了梅里安是正确的。
Henry Walter Bates, a friend of Charles Darwin, observed it and put it in book in 1863, proving Merian was correct.
在法国贵族中，科学仍然非常流行，上流社会的人都会涌去观看演示活动，例如尼古拉斯·莱梅里展示的一座正在喷发的火山。
Science was also enormously popular among the French nobility, and fashionable society flocked to demonstrations such as Nicolas Lemery's display representing an erupting volcano.
五年前，在世界上唯一的梅里克海龟的筑巢地——贝克海滩，发生了一起重大的化学物质泄漏事件，导致当年几乎所有的海龟卵无法孵化。
A major chemical spill occurred five years ago at Baker's Beach, the world's sole nesting ground for Merrick sea turtles, and prevented nearly all the eggs laid that year from hatching.
当我们跟随RonaldMessier 教授从马德里向南，前往历史悠久的托莱多、罗马梅里达和安达卢西亚，探索历史遗迹和建筑。
As we travel south from Madrid with Prof. Ronald Messier to historic Toledo, Roman Merida and into Andalucia, we explore historical monuments and architecture.
描绘一只巨大蜘蛛吞食蜂鸟的画面，可能不太符合淑女形象，但令人惊讶的是，当梅里安在18世纪之交这样做的时候，没有人对此提出反对。
It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.
意大利卡梅里诺大学的学者FrancoRollo 是研究“冰人奥兹”的专家。
Franco Rollo of the University of Camerino, Italy, has worked on Ötzi the iceman.
梅里克先生的父亲身体非常虚弱，来不了。
安。梅里“那个女孩”。
安。梅里“那个女孩”。
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