不过，随着时间的推移，这个单词的意思发生的转变——它不再指一种内科医生无法找到名字来称呼的病症，而是指一种内科医生并不相信其真实存在的病症。
But with time the meaning of the word shifted so that it came to mean not an illness the physician had no other name for, but an illness that the physician didn't actually believe was there.
Lovelock的邻居，诺贝尔奖得主William Golding提议用古希腊大地女神盖亚（Gaia）的名字来命名这个理论，Lovelock喜欢这个称呼。
Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding, Lovelock’s neighbor, suggested calling the theory Gaya (GUY-ah) after the ancient Greek Earth goddess, lovelock embraced the name.
如果在地上竖起一排木棒，就成了栅栏(palisade)。我们现在依旧用这个词来称呼早期欧洲人在北美殖民地所搭建的最基本的防护墙。
A whole row of sticks stuck in the ground was a palisade and we still use that word for the kind of rudimentary protective walls built around early European settlements in North America.
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