纪录片《巨龙的奥秘》 第18期 探索巴德兰兹(2)

But as he studied the photographs more closely, Currie noticed something.

不过Currie仔细研究了照片，他发现了一些东西

In one of them, Brown's assistant was working at the elusive¹ site.

其中一张照片上，Brown的助手正在一个隐秘的地方工作

Behind him was a distinctive² ridge³ of hills.

他身后有一座与众不同的山丘

If Currie could find that ridge, he could find the site.

如果Currie能找到这座山丘，他也就能找到这个地方

If you look at this particular photograph, you can see a series of ridges⁴ with trees behind them.

你可以看看这张特别的照片，他们后面有一片山丘上面生长着树木

And there's not that many places around here we were going to get exactly that combination of ridges and trees.

这个地方长着树的山丘并不多

So if you can line yourself up properly with those ridges and trees,

所以你可以比对这些山丘和树

then you know you're in the right area and you have a very good chance of finding the quarry⁵ itself.

找到正确的地点后就有机会找到化石场

Even so, it's still like looking for a needle in a haystack.

虽然如此，这仍然是大海捞针

We spent a couple of days basically scouring⁶ the area,

我们花了两天时间搜索这片地区

looking for just the right combination of Badlands as revealed in the photographs.

在巴德兰兹寻找和照片上一模一样的景观

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.

第一天过去了，我们一无所获。第二天是一年中最热的一天

And the expedition, which numbered about 16 people, basically ran out of water.

探险队的16个人面临缺水的困难

By lunch time, everybody had gone back to camp except for me. I'm crazy enough I guess that I kept at it.

到了午饭时间，除了我，每个人都回到营地。我想我是疯了，我总是这样

I went through all the Badlands here.

我走过巴德兰兹的这片地区

And you can see these canyons⁷ are quite deep, so going up and down them on the hottest day of the year was quite an effort.

你能看到这里的峡谷很深，所以在一年中最热的这一天上下翻越的确非常辛苦

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.

走到那边时，我突然注意到那边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,

我爬上山顶，眺望这里的山丘

I could see that the trees and the ridge lined up exact perfectly⁸. I knew I had the site.

我看到山顶上的树和照片非常吻合。我知道我已经找到它了

1 elusive   

adj.难以表达(捉摸)的；令人困惑的；逃避的

参考例句：

• Try to catch the elusive charm of the original in translation.翻译时设法把握住原文中难以捉摸的风韵。
• Interpol have searched all the corners of the earth for the elusive hijackers.国际刑警组织已在世界各地搜查在逃的飞机劫持者。

2 distinctive   

adj.特别的，有特色的，与众不同的

参考例句：

• She has a very distinctive way of walking.她走路的样子与别人很不相同。
• This bird has several distinctive features.这个鸟具有几种突出的特征。

3 ridge   

n.山脊；鼻梁；分水岭

参考例句：

• We clambered up the hillside to the ridge above.我们沿着山坡费力地爬上了山脊。
• The infantry were advancing to attack the ridge.步兵部队正在向前挺进攻打山脊。

4 ridges   

n.脊( ridge的名词复数 )；山脊；脊状突起；大气层的)高压脊

参考例句：

• The path winds along mountain ridges. 峰回路转。
• Perhaps that was the deepest truth in Ridges's nature. 在里奇斯的思想上，这大概可以算是天经地义第一条了。

5 quarry   

n.采石场；v.采石；费力地找

参考例句：

• Michelangelo obtained his marble from a quarry.米开朗基罗从采石场获得他的大理石。
• This mountain was the site for a quarry.这座山曾经有一个采石场。

6 scouring   

擦[洗]净，冲刷，洗涤

参考例句：

• The police are scouring the countryside for the escaped prisoners. 警察正在搜索整个乡村以捉拿逃犯。
• This is called the scouring train in wool processing. 这被称为羊毛加工中的洗涤系列。

7 canyons   

n.峡谷( canyon的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This mountain range has many high peaks and deep canyons. 这条山脉有许多高峰和深谷。 来自辞典例句
• Do you use canyons or do we preserve them all? 是使用峡谷呢还是全封闭保存？ 来自互联网

8 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。