Long before , the roman historian pliny had speculated that there was another patch of land , to balance those already known .

很久以前，罗马史学家普林尼猜测存在另外一块陆地，这样才能与已知的那些大陆相平衡。

You type " squid " into a search engine , you land on the wikipedia page about squid , and in no time you are reading about jules verne and pliny .

你在搜索引擎上打入“乌贼”，马上就会被带入维基百科讲述乌贼的页面，没过多久你已经在阅读关于儒勒凡尔纳和普林尼的文章了。

Pliny the elder included this little piece of trivia in his book natural history written more than 2000 years ago and from there the word sarcophagus popped into english in a 1601 translation of the classic work .

2000多年前，老普林尼在他的《博物学》一书中记载了这一芝麻大小的琐事，随后，在这一经典作品1601年的一个翻译版本中，单词sarcophagus就突然出现在英语中。

Aristotle and pliny the elder both described such monsters ; legends such as the lusca ( caribbean ) , scylla ( ancient greece ) , and the sea monk ( medieval europe ) all describe a bizarre , often dangerous nautical creature .

亚里士多德和老普林尼描述了这种怪物，在加勒比海、古希腊以及中世纪的欧洲的传说都描述了古怪、危险地水生生物。

In the first century ad pliny the elder , a roman statesman , naturalist and writer , documented the glowing creatures near his home in the bay of naples , including glowing jellyfish and a species of glowing clam that was considered a delicacy in his day .

在公元一世纪，罗马政治家、博物学家和作家，老普林尼记录过在他家附近那不勒斯湾的发光物种，包括发光的水母和在他的时代被认为是优雅之物的发光的蛤蜊。