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We were actually looking for some small pieces of bone.
我們正在找一些小骨骼
We have seen that there were bones in those rocks
我們看到那些石頭里有骨骼
so we were just essentially chipping little pieces of rock
所以我們耐心地敲碎石頭
and seeing if there were any bones or fragments in there.
看看里面是不是有骨頭或碎片
Dr Rougier doesn't do dinosaurs. He's not even looking for plants.
Rougier博士并非研究恐龍，他也不是在尋找植物
He's after something even more precious and harder to find.
他的目標是一些更珍貴、更難找的東西
People working on dinosaurs think that they have a lot of heavy work and so on,
研究恐龍的那些人認為他們的工作非常繁重
but we looking for tiny little mammals, you know little creatures like this and like that,
但是我們要找的是小型哺乳動物，你要知道像這樣的小動物
we have an even harder time because they can trip over a skeleton of a dinosaur,
找起來更加困難，它們可能被恐龍的骨骼埋住
but for us to identify a little mammal jaw like this
而我們卻要在現場辨認這么小的哺乳動物顎骨，
in the field for which only a little portion is showing up it's very tough.
它們只露出這么小一點點，這真的非常困難
Mammals were the Cinderellas of the Jurassic.
哺乳動物是侏羅紀時代的“灰姑娘”
They were tiny, like present day mice, and probably nocturnal.
它們像今天的老鼠一樣小，而且很可能是夜行動物
Their fossils are so rare that before the site was discovered
在這次發現之前，它們的化石非常稀少
not a single Jurassic mammal had ever been found in South America before.
此前南美洲從未發現過一種侏羅紀哺乳動物
We were kind of ready to head back home and kind of a little bit dispirited
我們都已經準備回家了，大家都有點失望
because after four or five days we haven't really gotten what we were looking for,
因為連續四五天我們都沒能找到我們想要的東西
I saw a little thing that was very suggestive of a jaw of a mammal,
我看見一樣小東西很像哺乳類的顎骨
but there wasn't enough showing to be sure that that was the case.
但它那些部分并不能完全說明它就是顎骨
But when he looked closer Dr Rougier saw teeth.
可是當Rougier博士仔細觀察時，他看到了牙齒。
