Living behind something we often refer to as the “primordial soup.”

留下了我们常称之为“原始汤”的东西。

So how did we jump from the primordial soup to the first living plants, animals, and eventually humans?

那么，我们是如何从原始汤跃升到第一批有生命的植物、动物，最后到了人类？

Many theories as to how life on Earth evolved suggest that primitive life may have emerged from a primordial soup of chemicals when our planet was very young.

许多关于地球上的生命是如何进化的理论表明，原始生命可能是在我们的星球非常年轻的时候从原始的化学物质汤中产生的。

Billions of years ago, long before the dinosaurs, animals or even plants existed, the Earth had a watery environment of oxygen-free gases and chemicals known as the primordial soup.

数十亿年前，远在恐龙、动物甚至植物出现之前，地球有一个由无氧气体和化学物质组成的水环境，这一环境被称为原始汤。

These tales of primordial soups, electrical sparks, and molecular innovation illuminate how remarkable life is, and how extraordinary its origins must have been.

这些关于原始汤、电火花和分子创新的故事阐明了生命是多么的非凡，以及它的起源是多么的非凡。

Earth's primordial soup lacked the building blocks of life – a phrase describing the most basic biological and chemical units needed to support living things, elements like oxygen and carbon.

地球原始汤缺乏生命的构成要素——这个短语描述的是支持生物所需的最基本生物及化学单位，如氧和碳等元素。

OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned from the programme, starting with primordial soup – the environment on Earth before there were any plants or animals, which created the conditions for life.

好了，让我们来回顾一下我们从本期节目中学到的词汇，从原始汤开始。原始汤是地球上没有任何动植物之前的环境，它为生命创造了条件。

One of the most enduring images of the first spark of life is that of the primordial soup: a warm, wet, organic--rich environment where life first stirred.

生命最初的火花最持久的形象之一就是原始汤的形象：一个温暖、潮湿、富含有机物的环境，生命最初在这里搅动。

The term " primordial soup" is one used sometimes in biology to refer to when the Earth was just starting, or I should say, when life on earth was just starting.

“原始汤”一词有时在生物学中用来指地球刚刚开始的时候，或者我应该说，地球上的生命刚刚开始的时候。

Chapter 4: From Soup to Cells: Enter the RNA World While the primordial soup theory explains how the building blocks could form, another leap was needed to go from a soup of organic molecules to self--replicating life.

第四章：从汤到细胞：进入RNA世界虽然原始汤理论解释了构建块是如何形成的，但从有机分子汤到自我复制生命还需要另一次飞跃。