The first paragraph focuses on his background and how he came to be the evolutionist that he was.

第一段要是的背景以何成为一个进化论者。

You know, are we evolutionists or are we creationists?

你知道，我们是进化论者还是创造论者？

Of course both priests and evolutionists bitterly denied this heresy, but what they affirmed or denied in 1860 had very little importance indeed for 1960. Anarchy lost no ground meanwhile. The problem became only the more fascinating.

当然，牧师和进化论者都强烈否认这种异端邪说，但们在 1860 年所肯定或否认的东西在 1960 年确实没有什么重要性。与此同时，无政府状态并没有失去任何立足之地。这个问题变得更令人着迷。

History offered a feeble and delusive smile at the sound of the word; evolutionists and ethnologists disputed its very existence; no one knew what to make of it; yet, without the clue, history was a nursery tale.

听到这个词，历史露出了微弱而虚幻的微笑；进化论者和民族学家争论它的存在；没有人知道该怎么做；然而，果没有线索，历史就是童话故事。

In retrospect, the mythmakers are right, for in the spin game that followed the debate the evolutionists came out on top, the bishop's reputation was badly tarnished and Huxley acquired the sobriquet " Darwin's bulldog" .

回想起来，神话制造者是对的，因为在辩论之后的操纵游戏中， 进化论者占了，教的声誉严重受损， 而赫胥黎获得了“达尔文斗牛犬” 的绰号。

It is admitted by most evolutionists that mammals are descended from a marsupial form; and if so, the mammary glands will have been at first developed within the marsupial sack.

大多数进化论者都承认哺乳动物是有袋类动物的后代；果是这样， 那么乳腺将首先在有袋动物的袋内发育。

We will begin with the problem of the physical conceptions of space and time and matter, which, as we have seen, are challenged by the contentions of the evolutionists.

我们将从空间、时间和物质的物理概念问题开始， 正我们所见， 进化论者的争论对这些概念提出了挑战。

Evolutionists want to care and love one another, and to care for our children, and our relatives, and our family, and so on.

进化论者希望彼此关爱、相互爱护，照顾我们的孩子、亲属和家庭等等。

BRIAN HARE: But thinking about evolution  like a Darwinian evolutionist does, that was not popular in Stalin's Russia.

布莱恩·黑尔：但是像达尔文进化论者那样思考进化论，在斯大林时代的俄罗斯并不流行。

To evolutionists may be left the processes of evolution; to historians the single interest is the law of reaction between force and force — between mind and nature — the law of progress.

进化论者可能会留给进化过程；对历史学家来说，唯一的兴趣是力与力之间——思想与自然之间——进步的规律。