纪录片《巨龙的奥秘》 第20期 引发争议

Currie's site seemed to prove it all. But other paleontologists were not yet convinced.

Currie的发现似乎已证明了这一切。可是其它古生物学家仍持有保留态度

Bone beds are very tantalizing¹, because you have a tremendous number of bones in one single layer.

化石场的资料非常混乱，因为大量骨骼被埋在同一地层中

And for tempting² to look at that as evidence for a herd³ of animals, living in one place at one time.

你当然很渴望一群恐龙生活在同一时代、同一地点

There are times when the bone bed information I think supports that interpretation⁴. But there are times when it does not.

有时候这些资料能证明这一点。有时候却不是这样

Before anyone would accept Currie's evidence, he would have to verify some key details about the dig site.

在别人反驳Currie之前，他必须核实一些关于挖掘点的关键性的证据

A collection of bones and bone bed doesn't automatically mean what we looking that a collection of animals lived together.

从一个化石场收集到的骨骼并不能直接说明这些动物生活在一起

Sometimes bone beds accumulate from large areas of land where floods have brought all kinds of animal remains⁵ together and makes them up.

有时化石可能来自很大一片地区，因为洪水把各种恐龙的尸体都冲在了一起

So you might be looking at an accumulation from ...of many different animals, from miles and miles away.

所以你看到的这许多不同的恐龙可能来自数英里之外

This was the first problem.

这是第一个问题

Flood waters spreading acrooss the plains could have washed together the remains of several unrelated tyrannosaurs.

铺盖平原的洪水可能把许多互不相干的暴龙尸体冲到一起

Buried in the same place millions of years ago, today they might look like a pack.

在同一个地方埋葬了亿万年后，它们今天看上去就像是一个族群

1 tantalizing   

adj.逗人的；惹弄人的；撩人的；煽情的v.逗弄，引诱，折磨( tantalize的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• This was my first tantalizing glimpse of the islands. 这是我第一眼看见的这些岛屿的动人美景。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• We have only vague and tantalizing glimpses of his power. 我们只能隐隐约约地领略他的威力，的确有一种可望不可及的感觉。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史

2 tempting   

a.诱人的, 吸引人的

参考例句：

• It is tempting to idealize the past. 人都爱把过去的日子说得那么美好。
• It was a tempting offer. 这是个诱人的提议。

3 herd   

n.兽群，牧群；vt.使集中，把…赶在一起

参考例句：

• She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
• He had no opinions of his own but simply follow the herd.他从无主见，只是人云亦云。

4 interpretation   

n.解释，说明，描述；艺术处理

参考例句：

• His statement admits of one interpretation only.他的话只有一种解释。
• Analysis and interpretation is a very personal thing.分析与说明是个很主观的事情。

5 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。