Excited and yet overwhelmed by what they viewed as a dramatic increase in human knowledge, encyclopedists of the era aimed to organize and classify all of this new knowledge using a new reference system: the encyclopedia.
兴奋但不堪重负的是什么，他们看作是一个急剧增加人类的知识，encyclopedists的时代，目的在于组织和分类的所有这种新的知识使用一个新的参照系：百科全书。