Wohler didn't set out to disprove vitalism — he was originally trying to make a totally different compound.

沃勒并没有打算反驳活论——他最初试图制造一种完全不同的化合物。

Though his experiments were discredited, much like the rest of vitalism, traces of his theory still come up in popular culture.

虽然他的实验和其他活理论一样没有被承认，我们仍能文化中找到其理论的踪迹。

One ancient theory was an idea called vitalism, which claimed that living things were unique because they were filled with a special substance, or energy, that was the essence of life.

有一个被称为“活论”的古老的理论认为生物体是独特的，因为生物充满特别的物质或能量，这种物质就是生物的本质。

For a long time, a lot of chemists thought substances from living beings had some kind of vital force that made them different than non-living things, an idea known as vitalism.

长期以来，许多化学家认为来自生命体的物质具有某种生命，这让它们与非生物不同，这就是所谓的生命。