查询词典 phlogiston

So nothing really has the property being phlogiston .

所以，没有任何东西有属性'是燃素'。

One classical example is eighteenth-century phlogiston theory, which embodied significant predictive improvements over prior theories of combustion

一个经典的例子是十八世纪的燃素说，在燃烧理论之前它曾经在预测能力上有过重大的改进

This hazy "phlogiston theory," this erroneous conception of burning, led chemistry along a completely false trail

这个莫名其妙的"燃素论"，对燃烧做了错误的理解，把化学扯上了一条完全错误道路。

He stated the first version of the Law of Conservation of Matter, recognized and named oxygen (1778), disproved the phlogiston theory, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature.

他是第一个定义质量守恒定律的人，1778年时发现并命名了"氧"，驳斥了燃素论，对于化学名称规范化也起了很大的作用。

Most of us are realists about tables, chairs, mountains, and galaxies, but not about ghosts, witches, or phlogiston.

我们大多都是关于桌子、椅子、高山、银河系等的实在论者，但不是鬼、巫、燃素等的实在论者。

As a matter of fact, Priestley defended the phlogiston theory right up to his death.

事实上，普里斯特利就终身辩护燃素理论。

We can ascribe to our fellow human beings intelligible thoughts and beliefs about phlogiston and witches, or ghosts and goblins, without having to suppose that there are any such things.

我们能够归诸如鬼、燃素等无需假设存在的东西之可理解的信念给某些人。

For example, 'phlogisticated air' was supposed to be air that is infused with the substance phlogiston, and this was supposed to help to explain combustion.

例如，'燃素气'被假设是注入燃素实体的空气，这假设被认为有助于解释燃烧。

Even in natural philosophy, there is always some other explanation possible of the same facts; some geocentric theory instead of heliocentric, some phlogiston instead of oxygen; and it has to be shown why that other theory cannot be the true one: and until this is shown, and until we know how it is shown, we do not understand the grounds of our opinion.

即使在自然哲学当中，对于同一事实也可能有另种解释：例如有以地球中心说代替太阳中心说的，有以热素论代替氱气论的；这就必须能够表明为什么那个另一说不能成为真理；除非到这一点已经得到表明，并且我们也知道它是怎样得到表明的，我们就不算懂得我们所持意见的根据。

We could not find them to have beliefs about the colours of things in general—we could not ascribe to them beliefs with those contents—by explaining how they form those thoughts from other thoughts they have of things that are not colours, as we might do in the case of phlogiston or goblins.

我们不能发现他们持有关于颜色物的信念——我们不能归给他们具有那些内容的信念——通过解释他们如何从其他那些非颜色东西那里形成颜色信念，就如在燃素或妖精哪里。

Singer Leona Lewis and former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page emerged as the bus transformed into a grass-covered carnival float, and the pair combined for a rendition of "Whole Lotta Love".

歌手leona刘易斯和前率领的飞艇的吉他手吉米页出现巴士转化为基层所涵盖的嘉年华花车，和一双合并为一移交&整个lotta爱&。

This is Kate, and that's Erin.

这是凯特，那个是爱朗。