And we still use Linnaeus system today for naming everything from tomato plants to ancient dinosaurs.

我们今天仍然使用系统来命名从番茄植到古代恐龙的一切事。

Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon raced to categorise all life.

卡尔·和乔治-路易·布封竞相为所有生分类。

Originally, scientists like Linnaeus grouped animals based on their looks.

最初，像样的科家根据动的长相对它们进行分组。

The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus used that plant to give coffee its scientific name.

瑞典博家卡尔·用种植为咖啡命名。

Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus assumed insects had no brains at all.

瑞典博家卡尔假设昆虫根本没有大脑。

Linnaeus noticed something unusual about cannabis.

发现了大麻的不寻常之处。

Linnaeus's plan wasn't perfect, but the idea behind it was correct.

Linnaeus 的计划并不完美， 但是他的想法是对的。

Linnaeus was a Swedish scientist in the 18th century.

是18世纪的瑞典科家。

It was in this mess of thousands of confusing and overlapping names that Carl Linnaeus emerged.

卡尔· (Carl Linnaeus) 正是在成千上万个令人困惑和重叠的名字的混乱中出现的。

Linnaeus wrote an enormous book that listed all known organisms.

写了一本巨著，列出了所有已知的生。

13. Oh, before I go on, I must mention Carolus Linnaeus...kah-ROE-lus Li-NAY-us

哦，在我继续讲下去之前我必须先提一下卡罗勒斯•。

Let's start with a name that Linnaeus gave to human beings.

让我们从给人类起的一个名字说起。

At the time of Linnaeus, Latin was the language of science in Europe.

在时代，拉丁语是欧洲的科语言。

In fact Linnaeus named several thousands of them himself.

事实上，自己命名了数千个。

It was practised out of doors rather than in a laboratory, and aside from the classification madness of Linnaeus, it was light on systems and formality.

它的研究在户外进行而不是在实验室，不像繁杂的分类法，体系和形式是次要的。

Since Linnaeus started naming species in the 18th century with binomial names most species on the planet have been given names.

自从在 18 世纪开始使用二项式命名种以来，地球上的大多数种都被赋予了名称。

Aristotle and his plant-animal-human system influenced generations of zoologists, including Carl Linnaeus who developed binomial nomenclature, the system of giving all animals a unique, two-part Latin name.

亚里士多德和他的植-动-人类体系影响了一代又一代的动家，其中包括卡尔·，他发展了二项式命名法，即给所有动一个独特的、由两部分组成的拉丁名称。

We remember both Aristotle and Linnaeus as important men, but no matter what we're studying, scientists are people making choices about what's worth paying attention to, and they're not always right or fair.

无论我们研究什么，亚里士多德和两位重要人都铭记于心，然而，科家们是经过慎重选择的人，值得我们的关注，但并不意味着他们总是正确或公正的。

Linnaeus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds—and there is no plant so unproductive as this—and their seedlings next year produced two, and so on, then in twenty years there would be a million plants.

计算过， 如果一株一年生植只结出两颗种子——没有哪一种植的产量比它低——而它们的幼苗明年结出两颗，依此类推，那么二十年后将有一百万株植。