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Dinosaurs. You've probably seen hundreds of them. You might think you know what they look like. But almost every dinosaur you've ever seen is a work of fiction. You turn on the television，it almost feels that we know everything about them. And that's not really the case.
恐龍。你可能看過幾百只恐龍。也許你認為你知道它們長什么樣。但是幾乎每一只你見過的恐龍都是小說的產物。打開電視，它也讓你感覺我們對恐龍無所不知。但事實不是這樣。
But now a groundbreaking new exhibition is working with the world's dinosaur scientists to revolutionize the way we see these animals. We've found using our computer models that human sprinter would probably be pretty well match for a muscular tyrannosaurus.
然而現在恐龍專家們正在進行一個開創性的新展覽，能徹底改變我們對這些動物的看法。我們已經利用電腦模型將短跑選手與肌肉發達的暴龍很好地匹配。
Scientists are pushing the frontiers of our knowledge in new and surprising ways. We can say these dark stripes were not red, black or whatever, they were ginger. That's just amazing. But we've never even found a complete skeleton of a tyrannosaurus rex, the most famous dinosaur. So how on earth have we worked out so much about animals that lived millions of years ago? How do we get from an incomplete pile of broken bones to this? How do you build a dinosaur?
科學家在不斷以新的，令人驚訝的方式推動知識的前沿。我們可以確定這些暗紋不是紅色、黑色或者其它顏色，它是姜黃色。那太令人驚奇了。但我們從來沒發現過一塊完整的霸王龍骨架，霸王龍是最有名的一種恐龍。因此我們到底要怎么去了解數百萬年以前的動物？我們是怎么將一堆破碎的骨頭復原？如何將它們組合成恐龍？
I'm Alice Roberts. I am an anatomist used to working with human bodies. It's not hard to put a human skeleton together. You only need to look in the mirror to get a pretty good idea of where the bones go. But what do you do when the bones belong to animals that went extinct millions of years ago? We all think that we know what dinosaurs look like. We've seen plenty of them in pictures, in films, in animations, even in toy shops. But given that the last dinosaur died at about 65 million years ago, none of us have ever actually seen a living dinosaur. So how do we know what they look like and can we be sure that we're getting it right?
我是愛麗絲·羅伯特。我是一名解剖學家，曾研究過人體結構。將人體骨架組合在一起并不難。你只需要照照鏡子就能想到骨頭安在哪里合適。但面對來自數百萬年前，已經滅絕的動物骨骼，我們要怎么做呢？我們都知道印象中的恐龍是什么樣子。我們在圖片、電影、動畫、甚至在玩具店里看見過許多。但是，鑒于最后一只恐龍在650年前就死了，確實沒有一個人曾見過活生生的恐龍。因此我們如何知曉恐龍的摸樣？我們如何確定得到了正確的結果。
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