What Leeuwenhoek had found were protozoa.

列文虎克发现的是原虫。

Leeuwenhoek was close friends with another Delft notable, the artist Jan Vermeer.

列文虎克是另一个代尔夫特著名画家简·弗美尔的密友。

No one believes I spoke to the spirit of Leeuwenhoek.

没有人相信我和列文虎克有过通灵对话。

I was sure that an ignorant woman like Madame Vulpes would not know who Leeuwenhoek was.

我确信像Madame Vulpes这样无知的女人不会知道列文虎克是谁。

He says some of van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes could magnify things more than 200 times.

他说，列文虎克的一些显微镜可以将事物放大 200 倍以上。

The spirit of Anton Leeuwenhoek told me how to make a perfect lens from a diamond of one hundred forty carats.

安东·列文虎克的灵魂告诉我，如何用一颗140克拉的钻石做出完美的透镜。

Intagliata:  But Van Leeuwenhoek wasn't eager to reveal the secrets behind the hundreds of microscopes he built.

Intagliata：但范列文虎克并不急于揭示他建造的数百台显微镜背后的秘密。

He and his colleagues were able to peer inside several of van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes with a nondestructive technique called neutron tomography.

他和他的同事们能够使用一种称为中子断层扫描的非破坏性技术观察范列文虎克的几台显微镜的内部情况。

The Dutch scientist, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, saw tiny organisms he called the " wee beasties, " under his microscope about 350 years ago.

大约 350 年前，荷兰科学家安东尼·范·列文虎克 (Antoni van Leeuwenhoek) 在他的显微镜下看到了他称之为“小动物”的微小生物。

On the same evening that the spirit of Leeuwenhoek tells me the secret of the perfect lens, I find the diamond I need to create it.

就在列文虎克的灵魂告诉我完美透镜秘密的同一天晚上，我找到了我需要的钻石。

Van Eijck:  And so now the ironical thing is most likely it's the methods of Robert Hooke himself that Antoni van Leeuwenhoek used.

Van Eijck：所以现在具有讽刺意味的事情很可能是安东尼·范·列文虎克使用的罗伯特·胡克本人的方法。

Van Eijck points out that van Leeuwenhoek was still an extremely skilled craftsman and glass grinder—able to build the finest microscopes of his day.

Van Eijck 指出，van Leeuwenhoek 仍然是一位技艺精湛的工匠和玻璃研磨师，能够制造出他那个时代最好的显微镜。

I was sure that an ignorant woman like Madame Vulpes would not know who Leeuwenhoek was. Why would she know the name of the man who invented the microscope?

我确信一个像沃尔普斯夫人这样无知的女性，不会知道卢文胡克是谁。为什么她会知道发明显微镜的那个人的名字？

Using his new scope, Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe microorganisms, bacteria, spermatozoa, and muscle fibers, earning himself the illustrious title of The Father of Microbiology for his troubles.

使用他的新望远镜，列文虎克是第一个观察微生物，细菌，精子和肌肉纤维，为自己赢得了微生物学之父的杰出称号。

While other scopes at the time were lucky to get 50-times magnification, Van Leeuwenhoek's had up to 270-times magnifying power, identifying things as small as one thousandth of a millimeter.

虽然当时的其他瞄准镜幸运地获得了 50 倍的放大倍率，但范·列文虎克的瞄准镜具有高达 270 倍的放大倍率，可以识别小至千分之一毫米的物体。

Instead of using lens types unknown to other scientists of his day, van Leeuwenhoek had installed a common type of ground-and-polished lens in one of the microscopes they examined.

范列文虎克没有使用他那个时代的其他科学家不知道的透镜类型，而是在他们检查的其中一台显微镜中安装了一种普通类型的研磨和抛光透镜。

Now, Leeuwenhoek was technically the first person to use a dye — one he made from saffron — to study biological structures under the scope in 1673, because, the dude was a boss.

现在，列文虎克在技术上是第一个使用染料的人——他用藏红花制成的染料——在 1673 年的范围内研究生物结构，因为，这家伙是个老板。