Pressing the glass to his eyelike a jeweler, Leeuwenhoek watched his own animalcules swim about, lashingtheir long tails.
列文虎克像珠宝商似地把放大镜按在眼睛上，观察自己的微生物甩动着长尾巴四处游动。
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There were Volvox lookalikes, round balls of little creatures fused together to make a sphere of life rather than a separated quantity of what books like to call animalcules.
还有像团藻属类样子的东西，它们是小小的挤作一团的球状生物，而不是像书上所称的微生物那样各自分开。
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, pioneering microscopist, observed in 1702 that dry sediments of "animalcules", expected to be dead, were brought back to life when exposed to rain water.