In this the atomists resembled the Pythagoreans, who said that all things are numbers.

方面, 原子论者类似于毕达哥拉斯主义者, 后者说所有事物都是数。

Someone who thinks that there's no difference from the ancient atomist Democritus must just be unfamiliar with Descartes' works.

有人认为笛卡尔与古希腊原子论者德谟克利特没有区别，那只是因为他们不熟悉笛卡尔的作品。

The atomists produced a mechanical conception of the nature of things.

原子论者对事物的本质产生机械概念。

It was a revival of ancient atomist theories that were now widely known, thanks to the assiduous labors of those humanists.

是古代原子论的复兴， 些理论现广为人知，多亏那些人文主义者辛勤的工作。

The atomists did not think it was necessary to account for how atoms first began moving in space.

原子论者认为没有必要解释原子最初是如何开始太空中运动的。

Things, like numbers, are made up of combinable units; for the atomists things are simply combinations of various kinds of atoms.

事物就像数, 是由可组合的单位组成的;对于原子论者来说, 事物只是各种原子的组合。

The atomists described earth, air, fire, and water as different clusters of changeless atoms—the product of the movement of originally single atoms.

原子论者将地球、空气、火和水描述为不变原子的不同簇 - - 原本单个原子运动的产物。

For one thing, Democritus and other ancient atomists, like the Epicureans, assumed that their atoms have weight, a natural tendency to move down.

话说， 德谟克利特和其他古代原子论者，比如伊壁鸠鲁学派， 认为他们的原子有重量，有种自然倾向向下移动。

However, the argument between the two schools of thought was not finally settled in favor of the atomists until the early years of this century.

然而，直到本世纪初，两个思想流派之间的争论才最终以有利于原子论者的方式得到解决。

That is, he attempted to describe the relation between words and facts, as though their description was somehow immune from logical atomist theory itself.

也就是说，他试图描述词语和事实之间的关系，就好像它们的描述某种程度上不受逻辑原子论本身的影响。

Whereas Parmenides had said that reality consists of a single One, the atomists now said that there are an infinite number of atoms, each one being completely solid in itself.

巴门尼德曾说现实由单的“”组成，而原子论者则说，现实中有无数个原子，每个原子本身都是完全固体。