我挺喜欢刷 Wikipedia 的。《Naturalis Historia》是世界上已知最早的百科全书，我觉得很值得一读，“免得我们遗忘”古典时代的教训。
I enjoy reading Wikipedia. Naturalis Historia is the world's earliest known encyclopaedia, and I think it's worth reading "lest we forget" the lessons from classical antiquity.
…milk into adulthood." Growing up in Geneva, the cultural importance of local French and Swiss cheeses from the Alps and Jura is significant, and dates back to Roman times, according to Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia [2]. A lot was happening about 6000 years ago. Cuneiform script was invented about 3200 BC. Egyptian hieroglyphs are from 3400 BC. Noam Chomsky suggested a cosmic ray shower that suddenly delivered language…
…water mill for sawing stone in his poem Mosella from the 4th century AD. They could easily have adapted the technology to crush ore using tilt hammers, and just such is mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia dating to about 75 AD, and there is evidence for the method from Dolaucothi in South Wales” “They also used reverse overshot water-wheel for draining mines, the parts being prefabricated and numbered…
……加一点盐吃东西确实更容易咽下去。老普林尼翻译过一个古老的解毒秘方，里面就用了“空腹服用，外加一粒盐（plus a grain of salt）”这样的话。> 公元77年普林尼的《Naturalis Historia》译文如下：> 在击败那位强大的君主米特拉达梯之后，格奈乌斯·庞培在其私人密室中发现了一份亲笔书写的解毒药配方；内容如下……
…fact that food is more easily swallowed if taken with a small amount of salt. Pliny the Elder translated an ancient antidote for poison with the words 'be taken fasting, plus a grain of salt'. > Pliny’s Naturalis Historia, 77 A.D. translates thus: > After the defeat of that mighty monarch, Mithridates, Gnaeus Pompeius found in his private cabinet a recipe for an antidote in his own handwriting; it was to the following…
…referre. > “The laser, among the most precious gifts of Nature, used in numerous medical applications: to describe all its uses in combination with other things, endless is the task.” > — Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia XXII.il There is a slight problem in that a lot of the people who read it and accept the misdirection that we're talking about modern lasers, seem to not know who Pliny the Elder is or when he wrote,…
…Romans used to dye sheep purple. To show off to other Romans, they used the then super-expensive purple dyes, the ones they used on woolen togas of high social rank, on whole sheep. Pliny wrote about it in Naturalis Historia. - "I myself have seen the fleece upon the living animal dyed purple, scarlet, and violet,—a pound and a half of dye being used for each,—just as though they had been produced by Nature in this form,…
我挺喜欢刷 Wikipedia 的。《Naturalis Historia》是世界上已知最早的百科全书，我觉得很值得一读，“免得我们遗忘”古典时代的教训。
I enjoy reading Wikipedia. Naturalis Historia is the world's earliest known encyclopaedia, and I think it's worth reading "lest we forget" the lessons from classical antiquity.
……成年后喝奶。”在日内瓦长大，来自阿尔卑斯山和汝拉山区的法国及瑞士本地奶酪有着极其重要的文化意义，而且根据老普林尼的《Naturalis Historia》[2]，这可以追溯到罗马时代。大约6000年前发生了很多事。楔形文字发明于公元前3200年左右。埃及象形文字可以追溯到公元前3400年。诺姆·乔姆斯基曾提出过一种假说，认为是一场宇宙射线风暴突然赋予了人类语言能力……
…milk into adulthood." Growing up in Geneva, the cultural importance of local French and Swiss cheeses from the Alps and Jura is significant, and dates back to Roman times, according to Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia [2]. A lot was happening about 6000 years ago. Cuneiform script was invented about 3200 BC. Egyptian hieroglyphs are from 3400 BC. Noam Chomsky suggested a cosmic ray shower that suddenly delivered language…
……在他公元4世纪的诗歌《Mosella》中提到了用于锯石的水车。他们很容易就能改造这项技术，用倾斜落锤来粉碎矿石，老普林尼在大约公元75年的《Naturalis Historia》中就提到了这种做法，南威尔士的多劳科蒂也出土了使用该方法的证据。“他们还使用反向俯冲式水车给矿井排水，零部件都是预制好并编了号的……
…water mill for sawing stone in his poem Mosella from the 4th century AD. They could easily have adapted the technology to crush ore using tilt hammers, and just such is mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia dating to about 75 AD, and there is evidence for the method from Dolaucothi in South Wales” “They also used reverse overshot water-wheel for draining mines, the parts being prefabricated and numbered…
……加一点盐吃东西确实更容易咽下去。老普林尼翻译过一个古老的解毒秘方，里面就用了“空腹服用，外加一粒盐（plus a grain of salt）”这样的话。> 公元77年普林尼的《Naturalis Historia》译文如下：> 在击败那位强大的君主米特拉达梯之后，格奈乌斯·庞培在其私人密室中发现了一份亲笔书写的解毒药配方；内容如下……
…fact that food is more easily swallowed if taken with a small amount of salt. Pliny the Elder translated an ancient antidote for poison with the words 'be taken fasting, plus a grain of salt'. > Pliny’s Naturalis Historia, 77 A.D. translates thus: > After the defeat of that mighty monarch, Mithridates, Gnaeus Pompeius found in his private cabinet a recipe for an antidote in his own handwriting; it was to the following…
……referre。> “激光（laser，实指古植物激光草），大自然最珍贵的馈赠之一，用于无数医疗用途：若要详述其与其他药物配伍的所有用途，那将是一项永无止境的任务。” > ——老普林尼，《Naturalis Historia》第22卷。这里有个小问题：很多读到这句话并顺着误导以为我们在聊现代激光（laser）的人，似乎根本不知道老普林尼是谁，也不知道他是啥年代写的……
…referre. > “The laser, among the most precious gifts of Nature, used in numerous medical applications: to describe all its uses in combination with other things, endless is the task.” > — Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia XXII.il There is a slight problem in that a lot of the people who read it and accept the misdirection that we're talking about modern lasers, seem to not know who Pliny the Elder is or when he wrote,…
……罗马人过去常把羊染成紫色。为了在其他罗马人面前显摆，他们把当时昂贵无比的紫色染料——也就是高阶层人士羊毛托加袍上用的那种——染在整只整只的活羊身上。普林尼在《Naturalis Historia》里写过这件事：“我亲眼见过活羊身上的羊毛被染成紫色、猩红色和紫罗兰色——每只羊耗费一磅半染料——就好像它们天生就是大自然产出的这种颜色一样……
…Romans used to dye sheep purple. To show off to other Romans, they used the then super-expensive purple dyes, the ones they used on woolen togas of high social rank, on whole sheep. Pliny wrote about it in Naturalis Historia. - "I myself have seen the fleece upon the living animal dyed purple, scarlet, and violet,—a pound and a half of dye being used for each,—just as though they had been produced by Nature in this form,…