纪录片《巨龙的奥秘》 第15期 找出证据

Currie now began to think the idea of large meat-eating dinosaurs¹ as pack hunters was a serious possibility.

Currie现在开始认为大型食肉恐龙是群体狩猎者的可能性很大

But to prove his hunch², he needed hard evidence,

但是为了证明他的假设，他必须找出证据

like that which had been found for the plant-eating dinosaurs.

类似植食恐龙身上的那些证据

What he needed was to find a bone bed where a group of mega-carnivores,

他需要找到一片埋葬着数只大型食肉恐龙的化石场，

any meat-eating giants no matter what species, lay buried together.

不论是哪种食肉恐龙都行

If we can find a bone bed with a lot of carnivores in one place,

如果我们能找到一处埋着很多食肉恐龙的化石场

then we have an indication that those animals died together.

那就说明它们是一起死去的

If they died together, there's a very high probability they may have been living together.

如果它们真是一起死去，很有可能它们生前也在一起生活

The only way we can actually demonstrate if an animal is a group hunter,

唯一能证明这些动物是群体狩猎者的证据

or even come close to thinking about that, is by finding an assemblage

或者让我们开始相信这种说法的证据就是一片骨骼化石群

where there are multiple individuals of different age sizes,

包括各个年龄层次的个体

from small individuals all of the way to big adults, buried together at the same time.

从小恐龙到大个的成年恐龙都应该埋在同一地层中

So for Currie, the search was on around the world for just such a site.

所以对于Currie来说，他寻遍全世界只是为了找到一个地点

And then...he remembered something.

后来，他想起了些什么

1 dinosaurs   

n.恐龙( dinosaur的名词复数 )；守旧落伍的人，过时落后的东西

参考例句：

• The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 hunch   

n.预感，直觉

参考例句：

• I have a hunch that he didn't really want to go.我有这么一种感觉，他并不真正想去。
• I had a hunch that Susan and I would work well together.我有预感和苏珊共事会很融洽。