The name Maria Sibylla Merian is now largely forgotten.

玛丽亚.西碧拉.梅里安的名字几乎已被遗忘。

On board Christoph Merian, I dine while floating along the borders between three nations.

在克里斯多福·梅利安号上，我一边用餐，一边在河流上漂越三个国家。

Today Merian is celebrated as one of the world's first ecologists.

今天，梅里安被誉为世界上最早的生态学家之一。

The European audience was more interested in Merian's drawings than her gender.

2. 欧洲观众对梅里安的画作比对她的性别更感兴趣。

Merian often sat up the whole night through to observe and draw insects.

5. Merian 经常整夜坐着观察和画昆虫。

Merian acknowledged the help she got from natives of South America.

6. 梅里安感谢她从南美洲当地人那里得到的帮助。

Merian contributed greatly to people's better understanding of medicine and science.

7. Merian 为人们更好地理解医学和科学做出了巨大贡献。

Merian occasionally made mistakes in her drawings of insects and birds.

8. Merian 在她画的昆虫和鸟类中偶尔会犯错误。

Merian suffered a stroke in 1715 that left her unable to work.

梅里安在 1715 年中风， 无法工作。

Merian started raising insects at home, mostly butterflies and caterpillars.

梅里安开始在家里饲养昆虫， 主要是蝴蝶和毛毛虫。

It's partly thanks to the work of naturalist and illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian, that we can now find this idea amusing.

部分归功于自然主义者和插画家，Maria Sibylla Merian，的工作，我们现在可以发现这个想法很有趣。

Though she had planned to stay longer, Merian's adventure was cut short by illness and after two years she returned to Amsterdam.

虽然她原本计划多呆一段时间，但梅里安的冒险因疾病而中断，两年后她回到了阿姆斯特丹。

In 1699, Merian, by then divorced, sold her belongings and set sail to Suriname in South America with one of her daughters, Dorothea.

1699 年，当时离婚的梅里安，卖掉了她的财产，和她的一个女儿多萝西娅一起启程前往南美洲的苏里南。

It's possible Merian used a magnifying glass to capture the detail of the split tongues of sphinx moths depicted in the painting.

梅里安可能使用放大镜捕捉到了画中所描绘的狮身人面像蛾分裂舌头的细节。