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But Currie really needed to find the site.
但是Currie非常需要找到地址
So he scoured Brown's archive, looking for clues.
所以他收集了Brown的文章，希望能找到線索
We looked at everything in the archive we could get our hands on.
我們翻看了手頭上的所有資料
And we were lucky that amongst all that material were four photographs which were pretty good.
幸運的是，這些資料中有4幅照片非常有用
The photographs had been taken by Brown around the dig site in 1910.
這些照片是Brown在1910年于挖掘點附近拍攝的
Currie hoped that he could use the photos to pinpoint Brown's excavation.
Currie希望能借助照片查出Brown的挖掘地點
But all that was known was that the dig site lay somewhere in the Badlands, near the Red Deer River in western Canada.
已知的是這個地點位于巴德蘭茲，靠近加拿大西部的紅鹿河
So in 1997, Currie and a team of paleontologists set off by boat
所以在1997年，Currie和一支古生物學小組乘船出發
and on the expectation down a hundred-mile stretch of the Red Deer River,
開始搜索上百英里的紅鹿河流域
following the paddle strokes of Barnum Brown, looking for the site.
沿著Barnum Brown的足跡尋找化石場
But the Badlands of Canada stretch over hundreds of square miles,
加拿大巴德蘭茲地區綿延數百平方公里
with endless crags, hills and gullies that all look exactly the same.
一望無際的峭壁、山丘和峽谷，看上去都差不多
In all this vast land, no one knew where this potential goldmine of fossils was located.
在這片遼闊的土地上，誰都不知道恐龍化石究竟埋于何處
The Badlands are very, very complex.
巴德蘭茲的地形非常復雜
Unless you have exactly the right angle, be there exactly at the same time of day as he took the photograph,
除非你能到達他當時拍攝照片的相同地點
the chances are pretty good you can't relocate sites by using photographs.
否則你絕對無法用照片來找到它
