直到18世纪，人们还依赖于来自植物、动物和人类肌肉的能量来为自身提供动力。

Until the eighteenth century, people relied on energy derived from plants as well as animal and human muscle to provide power.

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19世纪中叶，进化论者查尔斯·达尔文首次对食肉植物感到惊奇。

Evolutionist Charles Darwin first marvelled at flesh — eating plants in the mid-19th century.

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我从中世纪的圣人、地图、字典、植物、战争纪念碑和我遇到的人那里得到它们！

I've gotten them from medieval saints, maps, dictionaries, plants, war memorials, and people I've met!

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Imagine that we're somewhere in, let's say, the fourteenth century trying to understand life, the life of plants.

想象一下,我们正处在,比如,在14世纪人们试图去理解生命,理解植物的生命

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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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