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Fossilized bones are essentially solid lumps of rock, which means that mounting them into a skeleton is an enormous challenge.
骨化石基本上都是堅硬的巖石塊，這意味著把它們組裝成一具完整的骨架是巨大的挑戰。
Most of the bones are real, which makes them extremely heavy. We're estimating at the total weight of the bones. It's a little over a ton. The femur's probably good 200, 250 pounds a piece. And we have to set those in place with special rigging devices helping forbid one of them falls, because it would take quite a bit of time to get those back together.
大多數骨骼很實在，所以它們極其沉重。我們正在測量骨骼的總重量。它大概有一噸多一點。一塊股骨大概有200至250磅。我們還得用一種特殊的索具將它們固定，以免其中一根股骨滑落，因為再把它們固定在一起需要很長時間。
The entire skeleton will be held together using a custom-made steel frame, which needs to be strong enough to support the enormous weight of the fossils.
整個骨架將會用定制的鋼框架固定在一起，這個鋼結構需要足夠強硬才能支撐化石的重壓。
This will fit in. This will get attached to this other section over here. And I'll take one of these ribs here. I'm not sure exactly which one goes where at this point. This is no.5. So it would lay down right in there, that loch you get screwed in at the bottom and just settle itself right in here.
這將很契合。這將和那邊其余的部分連接起來。我會拿走其中一根肋骨。我不確定到底哪塊骨骼可以放在這里。這塊是5號骨骼化石。那么應該把它平放在這里。那根狹長的骨骼放在底層會毀掉的，放在這邊就很合適。
Like many T Rexes, this one has been given a nickname, Thomas. He's one of the best T Rex specimens ever discovered, but it's still only 70% complete. The missing bones will be made by Paul's team based on over 30 partial tyrannosaurs Rexes that have been found so far.
就像許多霸王龍一樣，這個恐龍也有綽號，托馬斯。它是所發現的幾種霸王龍里最完整的一只。但也只有70%是完整的。保羅的團隊會根據目前所發現的30多塊骨化石來制造丟失的部分骨骼。
On this particular rib, you could see where the real rib goes together with the artificial rib. And this is a section that we had modeled and you could see how it blends in with the real rib, how it's glued. And it's also pinned on the inside, so it doesn't break. And these ribs will break like icicles. If you pick them up the wrong way, they will just crack, break right apart.
在這塊特殊的肋骨上你可以看見真正的骨骼與人造骨骼是如何連接的。我們需要做這部分的模型，你可以看見它是怎么融入到真正的肋骨里，如何粘在一起。并且它被固定在里面，不會破裂。這些肋骨就像冰錐一樣易碎。如果你以錯誤的方式抬起它們的話，它們會破裂，散落一地。
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