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But as he studied the photographs more closely, Currie noticed something.
不過(guò)Currie仔細(xì)研究了照片，他發(fā)現(xiàn)了一些東西
In one of them, Brown's assistant was working at the elusive site.
其中一張照片上，Brown的助手正在一個(gè)隱秘的地方工作
Behind him was a distinctive ridge of hills.
他身后有一座與眾不同的山丘
If Currie could find that ridge, he could find the site.
如果Currie能找到這座山丘，他也就能找到這個(gè)地方
If you look at this particular photograph, you can see a series of ridges with trees behind them.
你可以看看這張?zhí)貏e的照片，他們后面有一片山丘上面生長(zhǎng)著樹(shù)木
And there's not that many places around here we were going to get exactly that combination of ridges and trees.
這個(gè)地方長(zhǎng)著樹(shù)的山丘并不多
So if you can line yourself up properly with those ridges and trees,
所以你可以比對(duì)這些山丘和樹(shù)
then you know you're in the right area and you have a very good chance of finding the quarry itself.
找到正確的地點(diǎn)后就有機(jī)會(huì)找到化石場(chǎng)
Even so, it's still like looking for a needle in a haystack.
雖然如此，這仍然是大海撈針
We spent a couple of days basically scouring the area,
我們花了兩天時(shí)間搜索這片地區(qū)
looking for just the right combination of Badlands as revealed in the photographs.
在巴德蘭茲尋找和照片上一模一樣的景觀
Well, the first day went by and we had no luck. But the next day turned out to be the hottest day of the year.
第一天過(guò)去了，我們一無(wú)所獲。第二天是一年中最熱的一天
And the expedition, which numbered about 16 people, basically ran out of water.
探險(xiǎn)隊(duì)的16個(gè)人面臨缺水的困難
By lunch time, everybody had gone back to camp except for me. I'm crazy enough I guess that I kept at it.
到了午飯時(shí)間，除了我，每個(gè)人都回到營(yíng)地。我想我是瘋了，我總是這樣
I went through all the Badlands here.
我走過(guò)巴德蘭茲的這片地區(qū)
And you can see these canyons are quite deep, so going up and down them on the hottest day of the year was quite an effort.
你能看到這里的峽谷很深，所以在一年中最熱的這一天上下翻越的確非常辛苦
There was a point over there when I suddenly realized that a ridge in this region looked like it might just have the right kind of viewpoint.
走到那邊時(shí)，我突然注意到那邊的一座山丘看上去挺像照片上的那座
I got to the top, and as I mounted this ridge over here,
我爬上山頂，眺望這里的山丘
I could see that the trees and the ridge lined up exact perfectly. I knew I had the site.
我看到山頂上的樹(shù)和照片非常吻合。我知道我已經(jīng)找到它了
