That would have been an understandable position to come to in the fourteenth century, but it would have been wrong.

那可能就是能被14世纪的人们,所理解的解释,但它有可能是错的

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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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These are letters that date from the fourteenth century BCE.

这些书信可追溯至公元前14世纪。

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In the fourteenth century, all of this got filled in.

在十四世纪,这些都被填满了

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In fact, the idea of the stock exchange goes back to the fourteenth century, when in Flanders the first stock exchange called The Bourse was established.

事实上,股票交易所的诞生,可以追溯到14世纪,那时候在佛兰德斯,一个叫做,The Bourse的股票交易所成立了

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But my best take is we're pretty much like in the fourteenth century.

但我认为,我们现在所处的境地,跟14世纪差不多

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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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