纪录片《熟食造就了人类吗》 第29期：一百万年前的烹饪活动

They would have cut all of the overlying meat off here

他们会把盖在这上面的肉都割下来

and then pulled the femur out of the socket¹ a little bit

然后把股骨从关节窝里拉出来一点点

and cut the tendon that connected it.

再切断连接关节的筋腱

There's marks on them that

这些豪猪骨上面的一些痕迹

are similar to the bones we find from Swartkrans a million years ago

和在斯瓦特克朗斯发现的那些很相似

and those are in the form of these butchery marks.

比如这些宰割痕迹

Compare the butchery marks made only 12 hours earlier

将12小时前刚形成的这些宰割痕迹

with these from one million years ago.

与一百万年前形成的相比较

Yes, there's continuity².

是的 它们之间有一致性

There's only a certain way to take apart an animal body

分解动物尸体有固定的方式

and it leaves similar marks whether you're using steel or stone.

用钢质或石质工具都只会留下相似痕迹

What Travis's theory really needs

特拉维斯的理论最需要的是

is butchered bones which have also been burnt in the cooking process.

既被宰割又在烹煮过程中被灼烧了的骨头

This is such an exciting thing for me.

我感到很兴奋

This is a burnt bone with butchery marks on it.

这块烧过的骨头上有宰割痕迹

It just goes to show you that these things aren't uncommon³.

这就说明 这种行为不是稀有的

It's likely that we'll find this type of evidence at Swartkrans.

因此我们可能也会在斯瓦特克朗斯找到类似证据

I think it's as close as I'll be able to come to say

我认为在不久后 我就能宣布

we have cooking one million years ago.

人类在一百万年前就有烹煮行为了

The earlier the date, the greater the probability⁴

证据的年代越久远

that cooking affected⁵ the evolution of our first truly human ancestors.

烹煮行为影响人类祖先进化的可能性越大

1 socket   

n.窝，穴，孔，插座，插口

参考例句：

• He put the electric plug into the socket.他把电插头插入插座。
• The battery charger plugs into any mains socket.这个电池充电器可以插入任何类型的电源插座。

2 continuity   

n.连贯性，连续性，持续性

参考例句：

• There is no continuity between the three parts of the book.这本书的三个部分之间没有连贯性。
• Unfortunately,no questions from the audience broke the continuity of his harangue.令人遗憾的是，没有听众提出问题来打断他的高谈阔论。

3 uncommon   

adj.罕见的，非凡的，不平常的

参考例句：

• Such attitudes were not at all uncommon thirty years ago.这些看法在30年前很常见。
• Phil has uncommon intelligence.菲尔智力超群。

4 probability   

n.可能性，可能发生的事，概率

参考例句：

• The probability that it will rain today is high.今天下雨的可能性很大。
• He must calculate the probability of failure.他必须计算一下失败的概率。

5 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。