We were happy to see that, although our three strains had been previously identified bacteria, two of them were not previously associated with phthalate degradation, so this was actually a novel discovery.
我们高兴地发现， 尽管我们的三个菌株是已经被识别的细菌， 但其中两个之前并未与 邻苯二甲酸酯的降解联系在一起，所以这实际上是一个全新的发现。