By burning these phlogiston-containing elements, they would lose their phlogiston, and become new things.

通过燃烧这些含燃素的元素， 它们会失去燃素， 变成新的东西。

But everyone had to believe in phlogiston.

但每个人都必须相信燃素。

Cosmologists who believed in a pervasive substance called phlogiston.

相信存在一种称为燃素（phlogiston）的普遍物质的家们。

But you couldn't get anyone to support you unless you believed in phlogiston.

但除非你相信燃素，否则根本没人会持你。

Indeed it was Marie-Anne who translated Essay on Phlogiston for Antoine, which he ripped to pieces, changing everything forever.

事实上，正是玛丽安妮为安托了《燃素论》，他将其撕成碎片， 永远改变了一切。

So I call this phlogiston era of climate science, where phlogiston is CO2.

所以我把这一阶段的气候科称为“燃素时代”，其中燃素就是二氧化碳。

So phlogiston, for people who haven't heard of it, was a substance that people back, was it the 19th century?

对于那些没听说过的人来说，燃素是一种物质， 人们认为它存在于19世纪。

And so the true answer, I mean, to me, you know, there was a period 200 years ago when everyone thought that heat was phlogiston.

所以真正的答案是，对我来说，你们知道，大约200年前，每个人都认为热是一种燃素。

Vitiated airs, deflogisticated marine acids, phloxes, calxes, terequeous exhalations, phloxes, calxes, terqueous exhalations, and, above all, phlogiston, the substance that was thought to be the active agent in combustion.

Vitiated airs, deflogisticated marine acids, 以及最重要的燃素, 一种被认为是燃烧活性剂的物质。

They had all this combining ratios and then, you know, and then there was phlogiston … And one thing after another there were no atoms and no bonds, no wonder the poor bastards were lost!

他们有所有这些结合比，然后，你知道，然后有燃素… … 一个接一个，没有原子，也没有键，难怪这些可怜的混蛋迷路了！