纪录片《侏罗纪之谜》 第06期 恐龙骨骼

Suddenly his Geiger counter sprang into life,

他的盖格计数器数值突然剧烈跳动

but when he dug down it wasn't a uranium mine he found, but dinosaur¹ bones.

但是他挖出来的并不是铀矿，而是恐龙骨骼

The surprise wasn't that the bones had become radioactive that often happens when fossils form

骨骼具有放射性并不奇怪，当化石形成时这经常发生

what was really amazing was that the radioactive dinosaur came from the mysterious mid-Jurassic

真正令人惊奇的是这些放射性的恐龙骨骼来自神秘的中侏罗世

and all around, as far as the eye could see, were rocks of the same age.

而我们能看到的周围所有这些岩石都属于同一地质年代

News of the find reached palaeontologist Oliver Rauhut. He decided² to take a look.

古生物学家Oliver Rauhut得到了这个消息。他决定去那里看一看。

The area up here in Patagonia has some fantastic outcrops of middle Jurassic rocks.

巴塔哥尼亚的这片地区有一些奇特裸露的中侏罗世岩石

That means we have a real chance to get, for one thing,

也就是说我们首先很有可能找到

dinosaurs³ from the middle Jurassic which are very, very rare worldwide.

在全世界都非常非常稀少的中侏罗世恐龙。

With this we have the hope to really get a big piece of the puzzle in the middle Jurassic.

有了它，我们就有希望拼出一幅中侏罗世的全景图。

1 dinosaur   

n.恐龙

参考例句：

• Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击？
• He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 dinosaurs   

n.恐龙( dinosaur的名词复数 )；守旧落伍的人，过时落后的东西

参考例句：

• The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》