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In an obscure museum in eastern Europe a fossil hunter has made a momentous discovery.
這里是東歐一間昏暗的博物館，一位化石專家在此有了重大發現
The young palaeontologist was randomly sifting through a collection of drawers that hadn't been examined for 30 years.
年輕的古生物學家正在隨機挑選抽屜里的收藏品，它們已有30年沒人動過了
I was going through these drawers finding drawer after drawer of very much the sort of fossil I would expect to find,
我正在翻看抽屜，一抽屜一抽屜地尋找我想要的那種化石
really nothing particularly exciting and then pulling open one drawer I spotted in the middle,
沒發現什么值得興奮的東西，后來我打開一個抽屜，突然注意到抽屜中間
sitting in a little cardboard tray like soap, a fossil the likes of which would never have been found anywhere in the world.
在肥皂盒一樣的紙格中躺著一塊化石，看起來從沒在世界上其它地方發現過
Of all the tales of life on Earth there is one more fabulous than all the others the story of how we got our legs.
地球上所有生命故事中最傳奇的部分莫過于我們進化出腿的經歷
Scientists believe that long ago a fish came onto the land, grew legs and started to walk.
科學家們認為很久以前有一條魚爬上了陸地，長出腿，然后開始行走
It is one of the most crucial events in the history of life because that animal is our ancestor,
這是生命歷史上最重大的事件之一，因為這只動物正是我們的祖先
but how and why that fish grew legs is one of the biggest mysteries in evolution.
但是魚長出腿的原因和過程卻是進化史上最大的謎題之一
It baffled the finest minds in science for over a century.
一個多世紀以來，它一直困擾著科學界的精英
All they had to guide them were the theories of Charles Darwin, evolution's founding father.
唯有查爾斯·達爾文——進化論的創始人堪稱探討此問題的向導
