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恐龙
Dinosaurs
I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to have been extremely social.
我很幸运，在我作为古生物学家的早期，我和我的野外工作人员有了一些惊人的发现，这些发现表明恐龙是非常社会化的。
Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
恐龙就像鸟类一样，它们可以蹲下，也可以爬起来。哺乳动物，当我们躺下的时候，我们把腿向两边伸出来——鸟类不能这样做。恐龙也做不到这一点。
I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
我想我正处于成长的阶段。尽管我已经有了一个完整的职业生涯，而且我已经工作了很长时间，但就像恐龙又回来了一样。都是新的。我得靠自己，看看现在的生活有多精彩。
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
科学家有自尊心，科学家喜欢给恐龙命名。他们喜欢给任何东西命名。每个人都喜欢有自己命名的动物。
As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.
当我还是个孩子的时候，我知道所有的恐龙。我忘记了恐龙有多酷，这就是其中一个悲剧。
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
恐龙的雄辩的教训是，如果一些大是好的，过多的大并不一定更好。
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
我想弄清楚恐龙的生物学原理以及它们作为生物是什么样的。
Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
大多数寻找恐龙的人都在寻找漂亮的骨架。