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Two weeks later, when I joined him in Mulu, that faith had been tempered. The expedition was divided into three main teams. Two of them searched for new passages in a remote area of the rainforest while the third, called the "connection team," pored over maps, looking for spots where different cave systems might be linked.
兩周后，當我來到姆魯跟他們一起探險時，艾維斯的自信大打折扣。大家分成三隊，兩隊在雨林偏遠處尋找新的通道，第三支隊伍是“連接隊”，負責仔細查看地圖，并尋找可能連接不同洞穴系統的地點。
So far, Eavis said, the pace of discovery had been slow and the holy grail of connections -- the one Frank and Cookie would later probe for -- had eluded them. Eavis acknowledged disappointment, but his teams still had found more than seven miles of fresh passage, and more lay ahead.
艾維斯表示，到目前為止，探索的步伐十分緩慢，尋找連接處（也就是弗蘭克和庫奇后來去尋找的那個連接處）這一偉大目標也很難實現。雖然艾維斯對此很失望，但他的團隊還是找到了超過七英里長的新通道，并且前方還會有更多的通道。
The morning after my arrival I joined Eavis and a small crew headed for a cave called Gua Nasib Bagus -- the Good Luck Cave -- which holds the otherworldly Sarawak Chamber. Eavis, with other British explorers, had discovered the cave and the chamber in 1981, by following a river into the side of a mountain.
在我到達的那個早晨，我和艾維斯，還有一支小隊去了一個名叫幸運洞的洞穴，里面有超自然的砂拉越洞穴。1981年，艾維斯和其他英國探險者順著流進側山的河流，發現了幸運洞和砂拉越洞穴。
After climbing, pulling, and crawling upstream for hours, the cavers arrived at a still, calm place where the river vanished into the earth. The men unfurled measuring tapes and began surveying into the gloom, expecting to reach the rear wall soon.
在向上攀爬拉拽了幾小時后，探險者們到達了一個寧靜祥和的地方，在那里，河流流進了土壤。隊員們拉出卷尺，開始在昏暗中勘察，希望盡快抵達后墻。
