最大的进步开始于1800年，当时法国人尼古拉斯·阿佩尔发现，他可以把某些食物密封在罐子里，不让空气进入。

The greatest single advance began in 1800 when a Frenchman, Nicolas Appert, discovered that he could preserve certain foods by sealing them in jars and keeping the air from them.

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如果贮藏在密封的容器里，食物能保持比较久的时间。

Food will last longer if kept in an airtight container.

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我们还需要尽快清理溢出的液体，并将食物储存在密封的容器中。

We also need to clean up spills as soon as they occur, and store food in air-tight containers.

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So it's important to realize the role of ceramics; they need to make storage jars that could be sealed very well and preserve the stuff for a very long time, and indeed, they did that.

从中希腊人意识到陶艺的重要性,他们需要烧制可以密封得很好的,可以用来长久保存食物的陶罐,他们也的确这样做了

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