侏罗纪搏击俱乐部 第57期:我的角最大

 Its name means horned lizard¹, not after the hornlets above its eyes, but rather for the blade-like appendage² on its nose.

它的名字意为长角的蜥蜴，指的并不是其眼睛上面的角而是在鼻子上面刃状的附属物。

It's the only predatory dinosaur⁴ known to have this distinctive⁵ feature.

它是已知掠食性恐龙中唯一拥有这一独特特征的。

Those horns, they're not for attack.

这些角不是用来攻击的。

They're for display.

它们是用来展示的。

And if you're going to have a display structure that means, at least on occasion, you'd get together and you'd show off to each other.

要是身体某部分是用来展示的起码会偶尔聚在一起相互表现。

say, "Look at me. I've got the biggest horn."

看呐，看我，我的角最大。

So at least some of the time, these guys got together in groups.

所以这些家伙起码会偶尔聚在一起。

The Ceratosaurus stood nearly four meters tall, measured about six meters in length and weighed over a ton.

角鼻龙站起来近四米高长度达六米重一吨多。

That made it a mid-size predator³ in the late Jurassic period.

这使之成为侏罗纪晚期中等体型的掠食者。

Ceratosaurus may not have been large, but its oversized teeth worked much like a meat slicer.

角鼻龙可能不算巨大，不过它超大的牙齿很像切肉用具。

He's got the most wicked-looking teeth of any predator that ever walked the earth.

在地球上出现过的所有掠食者中它的满口牙齿最为吓人。

He's got two different kinds of teeth.

它有两种不同牙齿。

His upper teeth are immensely long and very bladelike, while his bottom teeth are a little stubbier and a little more powerful.

上面的牙齿长得出奇，很像刀刃，而下面的牙齿则稍微粗短些也更有力一点儿。

What that tells me is when he grabs you, he uses the muscle in his jaws⁶ to push those lower stubby teeth into you.

这就说明当它咬住你时，它用颌部的肌肉来把这些粗短的下面牙齿咬进你身体。

They're the anchor.

它们像锚一样。

Now he brings down the meat slicer, and cuts a chunk⁷ of you out.

然后它就要用切肉刀切下一大块肉了。

1 lizard   

n.蜥蜴，壁虎

参考例句：

• A chameleon is a kind of lizard.变色龙是一种蜥蜴。
• The lizard darted out its tongue at the insect.蜥蜴伸出舌头去吃小昆虫。

2 appendage   

n.附加物

参考例句：

• After their work,the calculus was no longer an appendage and extension of Greek geometry.经过他们的工作，微积分不再是古希腊几何的附庸和延展。
• Macmillan must have loathed being judged as a mere appendage to domestic politics.麦克米伦肯定极不喜欢只被当成国内政治的附属品。

3 predator   

n.捕食其它动物的动物；捕食者

参考例句：

• The final part of this chapter was devoted to a brief summary of predator species.本章最后部分简要总结了食肉动物。
• Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard and a fearsome predator.科摩多龙是目前存在的最大蜥蜴，它是一种令人恐惧的捕食性动物。

4 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。

5 distinctive   

adj.特别的，有特色的，与众不同的

参考例句：

• She has a very distinctive way of walking.她走路的样子与别人很不相同。
• This bird has several distinctive features.这个鸟具有几种突出的特征。

6 jaws   

n.口部；嘴

参考例句：

• The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。
• The scored jaws of a vise help it bite the work. 台钳上有刻痕的虎钳牙帮助它紧咬住工件。

7 chunk   

n.厚片，大块，相当大的部分（数量）

参考例句：

• They had to be careful of floating chunks of ice.他们必须当心大块浮冰。
• The company owns a chunk of farmland near Gatwick Airport.该公司拥有盖特威克机场周边的大片农田。