But the significant thing is not the behaviour of the players but the attitude of the spectators:

但是，要紧的还不是运动员的行为，而是观众的态度，

The question became one of whether Man could control the disease he had invented.

现在的问题是，人类能否控制住这种人为的疾病。

First the electroencephalograph (which is simply a device for recording the electrical activity of the brain by attaching electrodes to the scalp) shows that while there is a change in the pattern of activity during sleep,

第一点，脑电图记录仪（不过是一种把电极接到头皮上记录脑电活动的仪器）显示，人在睡眠时大脑活动的方式有变化，

And then, when they were dead, the carnivores, like the sabre-toothed cats and the giant wolves, came out to feed and suffered exactly the same fate.

大象死后，一些食肉动物，如剑齿虎和大灰狼就来吃大象，结果遭到了同样的命运。

He was the man who climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped various weights from the top,

他就是那个曾经爬上比萨斜塔，从塔顶向下抛掷各种重物的人；

if given the chance to live long enough;

即使能让它们活得足够长久的话，