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？

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。

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。

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。