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Several years earlier, he had read a very old magazine article
幾年前，他從一本老雜志上看到了一篇文章
by one of the most famous early dinosaur hunters.
內(nèi)容是關于一種最著名的早期食肉恐龍
I read an article by Brown.
我讀了一篇Barnum Brown寫的文章
The article was basically about his experiences in southern Alberta.
主要是講他在南亞爾伯的經(jīng)歷
In that article is basically a one-liner, which suggests that he found somewhere
文章中有一行提到它在某個地方發(fā)現(xiàn)了
where there was a lot of tyrannosaurs' remains in one single bone bed.
一片埋著很多暴龍骨骼的化石場
Currie realized this might be the multiple-carnivore bone bed he had been looking for,
Currie意識到這個早已被遺忘的地點可能就是他一直在尋找的食肉恐龍群化石場
a place which showed that several tyrannosaurs had lived and died together.
一個能證明很多暴龍一起生活和死去的地方
Buried in the pages of ''National Geographic'' for over 80 years,
但是由于在《國家地理》雜志中塵封了80多年
the reference to the bone bed site had long been forgotten.
化石場的資料早已被人們遺忘
I got really excited. I knew that this was a really special site.
我真的非常興奮，我很清楚，這是一個很不尋常的地點
And I felt that we had to refind this site.
我覺得我們應該找到它
It wasn't a matter any more that there was a bone bed that we might find. I had to find that site.
不管還有多少化石場等著我們?nèi)グl(fā)現(xiàn)，我必須找到這個地方
Although finding this site had become crucial, there was a problem.
雖然找到這個特殊地點非常重要，但卻有一個很大的問題
Barnum Brown had never written down where the site was.
Barnum Brown并沒有寫明地址
He died, taking the secret of its location to the grave.
他去世之時也把這些秘密帶進了墳墓
This is one of Barnum Brown's field books.
這是Barnum Brown的一本記錄本，
There aren't too many of these, just because Barnum Brown didn't take any notes.
他有很多這種記錄本，但大部分都沒有用，因為Barnum Brown并沒有記下些什么
All it is is just a list of specimens and field numbers.
你只要看看這本里面只列舉了一些標本名稱和數(shù)據(jù)
There's not much about his activities, about the geology of particular localities,
涉及他活動的內(nèi)容并不多，沒有多少詳細的地質(zhì)描述
except that the rocks were grey, or it took him three days to get a specimen out.
只是說巖石是灰色的，諸如此類的話，或是說他花了3天才挖出一塊標本
Unlike a lot of paleontologists of his time, or even today, he wasn't much of a note taker.
他和許多同時代的，甚至是現(xiàn)在的古生物學家不太一樣，他不是很喜歡做記錄
