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

勒并没有打算反驳活论——他最初试图制造一种完全不同化合物。

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

虽然他实验和其他活论一样没有被承认，我们仍能在流行文化中找到其论踪迹。

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”古论认为生物体是独特，因为生物充满特别物质或能量，这种物质就是生物本质。

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物质具有某种生命，这让它们与非生物不同，这就是所谓生命。