In this the atomists resembled the Pythagoreans, who said that all things are numbers.

在这方面, 原子类似于毕达哥拉斯主义, 后说所有事物都是数字。

The atomists produced a mechanical conception of the nature of things.

原子对事物的本质产生了机械概念。

The atomists did not think it was necessary to account for how atoms first began moving in space.

原子有必要解释原子最初是如何开始在太空中运动的。

Things, like numbers, are made up of combinable units; for the atomists things are simply combinations of various kinds of atoms.

事物就像数字一样, 是由可组合的单位组成的;对于原子来说, 事物只是各种原子的组合。

The atomists described earth, air, fire, and water as different clusters of changeless atoms—the product of the movement of originally single atoms.

原子将地球、空气、火和水描述不变原子的不同簇 - - 原本单个原子运动的产物。

However, the argument between the two schools of thought was not finally settled in favor of the atomists until the early years of this century.

然而，直到本世纪初，两个思想流派之间的争才最终以有利于原子的方式得到解决。

That is, he attempted to describe the relation between words and facts, as though their description was somehow immune from logical atomist theory itself.

也就是说，他试图描述词语和事实之间的关系，就好像它们的描述在某种程度上不受逻辑原子本身的影响。

Whereas Parmenides had said that reality consists of a single One, the atomists now said that there are an infinite number of atoms, each one being completely solid in itself.

巴门尼德曾说现实由单一的“一”组成，而原子则说，现实中有无数个原子，每个原子本身都是完全固体。