But everybody was stuck. A brilliant English physicist and polymath, Thomas Young, correctly worked out that a group of hieroglyphs repeated several times on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name-that of Ptolemy.

但没人取得任何进展。直到一位聪颖博学英国学者托马斯杨发现，一组在石碑上反复出现象形文字代表了一个王室姓氏发音—托勒密。

Born into privilege in the early 19th Century, Florence Nightingale was a polymath genius, she spoke multiple languages and pioneered concepts of statistical analysis that are still used today.

弗洛伦丝·南丁格尔出生于 19 世纪初特权家庭，是一位博学多才天才，会说多种语言，并开创了至今仍在使用统计分析概念。

Good biographies of some of the greatest mathematical minds are rare: because they were polymaths, biographers who can interpret their manifold achievements for the ordinary mortal are themselves thin on the ground.

因为这些数学家博学多才，能把他们众多成就解释给普通人看传记作家本身就寥寥无几。

It was also a reminder that, even in an age of polymaths, the breadth of the Tuscan master's interests was exceptional.

这提醒人们，即使在一个博学多才时代，这位意大利托斯卡纳区大师兴趣之广超乎常人。

Douglas Hofstadter, a polyglot and polymath writer, has argued that something profound will vanish when people talk through machines.

精通多种语言且通晓多门学科作家侯世达认为，当人们通过机器进行交谈时，一些深刻东西会消失。

A polymath is someone who has extensive knowledge or extensive expertise in a variety of topics.

polymath 是指在各种主题上有广泛知识或专业知识人。

Notable among these devices was the Step Reckoner, built by German polymath Gottfried Leibniz in 1694.

在这些机器中，莱布尼茨乘法器格外着名 它由德国博学家戈特弗里德·莱布尼茨于1694年建造。

In essence, it is a digital polymath trained to manage tasks across industries without the inefficiencies of human hesitation.

本质上，它是一个数字通才，经过训练可以跨行业管理任务，而不会因人类犹豫而效率低下。

But while she'd never again go as far away as Crimea, the polymath nurse wasn't done yet.

虽然没有去过克里米亚那么远地方，但这位博学护士还没有结束事业。

Perhaps Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci springs to mind.

许文艺复兴时期博学者列奥纳多达芬奇会浮现在脑海中。

Like the rest of his kind, Scooty is a colour-changing, shape-shifting, super-smart, poly-limbed, polymath.

像他同类一样，Scooty 是一个能变色、变形、超级聪明、多肢通才。

A polymath, Allais also made contributions to physics.

多才多艺阿莱，在物理学领域亦有建树。

An example would be the polymath projects.

一个例子就是数学难题合作项目。

There were other things he studied too because he was a polymath.

他还研究了其他领域，因为他是一位博学家。

A refreshing exception to such prescriptivism was the " Rudiments of English Grammar" by the scientist and polymath Joseph Priestley, which was unusual in expressing the view that grammar is defined by common usage and not prescribed by self-styled grammarians.

这种规定主义一个令人耳目一新例外是科学家兼博学家约瑟夫·普里斯特利 (Joseph Priestley) “英语语法基础”，它在表达语法是由普通用法定义观点而不是由自封语法学家规定观点时不同寻常。

Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian polymath, and he actually started off as a civil engineer, becoming a fairly renowned liberal economist, you know, fierce critic of regulation, pro-free markets, you know, sort of guy.

维弗雷多·帕累托(Vilfredo Pareto)是一位意大利博学家, 他实际上从土木工程师开始, 成为了一位相当着名自由派经济学家, 你知道, 对监管激烈批评, 支持自由市场, 你知道, 那种人。

Their inspiration was Ibn Sina, known as Avicenna in the West, a preeminent 10th-century polymath from Bukhara known as the father of modern medicine because he recognised the link between mind and body.

他们灵感源自伊本·西那， 西方称其为阿维森纳，这位10世纪来自布哈拉博学之士被誉为现代医学之父， 因为他认识到心身之间联系。

Okay then, let's get started and talk about Leonardo da Vinci, the world's greatest polymath, probably the greatest painter in history, and someone who perfectly embodies the concept of the Renaissance man.

好，那我们开始吧， 聊聊莱昂纳多·达·芬奇，世界上最有才华博学者， 可能是历史上最伟大画家，是完美诠释文艺复兴人物概念人。

Persian polymath Jabir ibn Hayyan, known as Jabir in Europe and as the father of early chemistry, began to experiment with processes such as crystallisation and distillation in his laboratory.

波斯博学家贾比尔·伊本·哈扬， 在欧洲被称为贾比尔， 被誉为早期化学之父，他在实验室中开始尝试结晶和蒸馏等过程。

If Van Helsing had known what he intended to do with the knowledge he gleaned from the brittle yellowed pages, the old polymath would never have given him the tomes.

如果范·海辛知道亚瑟打算如何利用他从那些发脆泛黄书页中汲取知识，这位博学老者绝不会将魔法书典交给他。