MELBOURNE – In the sixteenth century, the alchemist Paracelsus offered a recipe for creating a living being that began with putting sperm into putrefying “venter equinus.” This is usually translated as “horse manure,” but the Latin “venter” means abdomen or uterus.
发自墨尔本——早在16世纪，一位叫巴拉塞尔西斯的炼金术士就提出了一个创造新生命的秘诀，那就是把精子注入腐烂的“venter equinus”里面，这个词通常被翻译为“马粪”，但拉丁文的“venter”其实是腹部或者子宫的意思。