纪录片《侏罗纪之谜》 第10期 海底生物档案

Finding out how this event had transformed the dinosaurs¹ had obsessed² palaeontologists for years.

这场事件如何改变恐龙，数年来一直困扰着古生物学家

The site in Argentina gave them the chance to test out all their theories.

阿根廷的这片化石场给了他们验证这些观点的机会

One theory emerged on the other side of the world from Argentina.

其中一种观点表现在远离阿根廷的世界的另一头

The clues came from one of the few other places in the world with some mid-Jurassic fossils: Yorkshire.

线索来自拥有中侏罗世化石的少数其它几个地点之一：约克郡

It's not quite on the same scale as Patagonia, but Paul Wignall likes it.

它的规模不及巴塔哥尼亚，但是Paul Wignall却很喜欢这里

He's been coming to this beach for years to explore life in the Jurassic oceans.

他来到这片海滩已有数年，在此研究侏罗纪的海洋生物

What we see here is a lovely record of life on the Jurassic seafloor, a good sort of 180 million years ago.

我们在这里看到的是有趣的侏罗纪海底生物“档案”，一群生活在1亿8千万年前的生物

There's a whole range of sort of typical things that lived on and above the Jurassic seafloor.

这里包括了所有生活在侏罗纪海底的典型物种

There's various types of shellfish such as this that lived in the sediment³.

这里有各种各样的贝类，比如这种生活在泥沙中

These as well, they're nice typical sort of Jurassic shellfish called ammonites

这种也是生活在侏罗纪的典型贝类，叫做菊石

living and happily swimming above the seafloor.

在海洋中自由自在地生活和游荡

There's a whole range of different fossils, a really big diversity of things.

这里包括了所有不同物种的化石，表现出很高的多样性。

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 obsessed   

adj.心神不宁的,鬼迷心窍的,沉迷的

参考例句：

• He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
• The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。

3 sediment   

n.沉淀，沉渣，沉积(物)

参考例句：

• The sediment settled and the water was clear.杂质沉淀后，水变清了。
• Sediment begins to choke the channel's opening.沉积物开始淤塞河道口。