能帮我翻两个例子吗？

quncc

我想用他们例证有些东西是意想不到的。
如：哥伦布发现美洲大陆，原来他以为是亚洲的一部分。
还有一个就记不清楚了。就是青霉素的发明，好象是科学家忘了很久的实验，再去看时，就有了新发现。也不知到是不是青霉素，或者是其他的东西。科学家的名字更记不起来，只有靠大家帮帮忙了！

quncc

我的翻译水平有限
第一个我是这样翻的：when Columbus first found America, he just mistook it for the part of Asia.
第二个无从下手
大家看看怎么样？

quncc

怎么没有回答，大概帖子的名字起的不好，我推一下，希望这样xdjm们能看到。

sandwolf

HUOHUO～～
第二个这么霉！偶也不行了，请大虾米来好了。

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sandwolf

偶再帮你推一把。
但是，你确定这样坳口的例子你背得下来吗？

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quncc

xixi,这两个例子我都见过，就是因为拗口，所以没背下来。只记得大致的中文意思了。所以要请大家帮忙。

tongxun

我好象在托福的旧阅读中见过，但现在不记得了。

springwater

Columbus, the first people to discover American, considered this continent as part of Asia.

gigi

青霉素的发现者是英国细菌学家弗莱明。1928年的一天，弗莱明在他的一间简陋的实验室里研究导致人体发热的葡萄球菌。由于盖子没有盖好，他发觉培养细菌用的琼脂上附了一层青霉菌。这是从楼上的一位研究青霉菌的学者的窗口飘落进来的。使弗莱明感到惊讶的是，在青霉菌的近旁，葡萄球菌忽然不见了。这个偶然的发现深深吸引了他，他设法培养这种霉菌进行多次试验，证明青霉素可以在几小时内将葡萄球菌全部杀死。弗莱明据此发明了葡萄球菌的克星—青霉素。

　　1929年，弗莱明发表了学术论文，报告了他的发现，但当时未引起重视，而且青霉素的提纯问题也还没有解决。

　　1935年，英国牛津大学生物化学家钱恩和物理学家弗罗里对弗莱明的发现大感兴趣。钱恩负责青霉菌的培养和青霉素的分离、提纯和强化，使其抗菌力提高了几千倍同，弗罗里负责对动物观察试验。至此，青霉素的功效得到了证明。

　　由于青霉素的发现和大量生产，拯救了千百万肺炎、脑膜炎、脓肿、败血症患者的生命，及时抢救了许多的伤病员。青霉素的出现，当时曾轰动世界。为了表彰这一造福人类的贡献，弗莱明、钱恩、弗罗里于1945年共同获得诺贝尔医学和生理学奖。

gigi

That Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by chance is a myth. Before Fleming, there were a series of observations that influenced his research, and allowed him to come to the correct conclusion when a chance contamination in his bacterial culture was observed. This same opportunity came to others as well, but their only response to the contamination was that it had ruined their experiment and they had discarded the cultures and thought nothing more of it.

Discoveries in science are rarely made by chance. Often, it involves knowledge that has been gained over a long period of time so that all discoveries, today, have come about because we have "stood on the shoulders of giants that have come before us." Another words, discoveries are based on previous discoveries from the past. In the case of of penicillin, it was based upon historical records that had originated as early as 1500 B.C. There was already records describing the use of molds and fermented materials in the treatment of diseases. Because such treatments were carried out without an understanding on the nature of the cure or an understanding of cellular and biochemical processes of the human body, there was a likelihood of the patient dying from the treatment as well as being cured. It would not be until the late nineteenth century when Pasteur put forth the concept of the Germ Theory of Disease, i.e., diseases were caused by microorganisms. Not until then was there any concerted effort made that would destroy the microorganisms that were responsible for the actual causes of diseases. This led to the search for "The Magic Bullet". Another words a search was under way to find something that could kill the disease causing organisms without harming the person that it was infecting. One of the most common problem that occurred, and still occurs today, was the contamination of bacterial cultures by other microorganisms, especially fungi. These contaminations led to a number of observations in the late 1800s: