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It also marked the start of a war between the two that became increasingly bitter, underhand, and often ridiculous. They sometimes stooped to one team's diggers throwing rocks at the other team's. Cope was caught at one point jimmying open crates that belonged to Marsh. They insulted each other in print and each poured scorn on the other's results. Seldom—perhaps never—has science been driven forward more swiftly and successfully by animosity.
這事兒也標(biāo)志著兩人間一場(chǎng)對(duì)抗的開始。對(duì)抗變得越來越激烈，越來越骯臟，而且還很可笑。有時(shí)候，竟然卑鄙到一方的發(fā)掘人員向另一方的發(fā)掘人員投擲石塊的程度。有一次，有人發(fā)現(xiàn)柯普在撬開馬什的箱子。他們?cè)谖恼轮谢ハ辔廴鑼?duì)方，瞧不起對(duì)方取得的成果?？茖W(xué)往往是——也許從來是——在對(duì)抗之中發(fā)展得更快、更有成果。
Over the next several years the two men between them increased the number of known dinosaur species in America from 9 to almost 150. Nearly every dinosaur that the average person can name—stegosaurus, brontosaurus, diplodocus, triceratops—was found by one or the other of them. The notable exception being the Tyrannosaurus rex, which was found by Barnum Brown in 1902. Unfortunately, they worked in such reckless haste that they often failed to note that a new discovery was something already known. Between them they managed to "discover" a species calledUintatheres anceps no fewer than twenty-two times. It took years to sort out some of the classification messes they made. Some are not sorted out yet.
在隨后的幾年里，通過兩個(gè)人的共同努力，美國(guó)已知的恐龍種類數(shù)量從9種增加到將近150種。普通人說得出的每一種恐龍——?jiǎng)?、雷龍、梁龍、三角龍——差不多都是他們兩人中的一位發(fā)現(xiàn)的。不過有一個(gè)值得注意的例外，霸王龍是巴納姆布朗在1902年發(fā)現(xiàn)的。不幸的是，他們干得過于拼命，過于草率，往往把已經(jīng)知道的當(dāng)做一項(xiàng)新的發(fā)現(xiàn)。他倆“發(fā)現(xiàn)”一個(gè)名叫“尤因他獸”的物種不下22次。他們亂七八糟的分類，別人花了幾年時(shí)間才整理出來，而有的至今還沒有整理清楚。
