Digging up dinosaurs

Digging Up Dinosaurs

挖掘恐龙

Have you ever seen dinosaur skeletons in a museum? I have. I visit them all the time. I went again yesterday. I saw APATOSAURUS

你曾经在博物馆中看过恐龙骨骼吗?我看过。我经常去看。我昨天又去了。我看到了迷惑龙。

I saw CORYTHOSAURUS I saw IGUANODON and TRICERATOPS. I like to say their names.

我看到了冠龙。 我看到了禽龙和三角龙。我喜欢说这些恐龙的名字。

SCOLOSAURUS was just where I had left it. And TYRANNOSAURUS REX looked as fierce as ever. TYRANNOSAURUS used to scare me. I still can't believe how big it is. Just its head is almost twice my size. I'm not afraid of dinosaurs anymore. Sometimes I call them “ you bag of bones under my breath. I can spend hours looking at them. I used to wonder where they came from and how they got into the museum. But now I know.

我刚看完的是包头龙。霸王龙看起来还是和以前一样凶猛。以前我仍然难以相信它有这么大。光是头就有两个我那么大。我现在不怕恐龙了。有时我低声称呼它们为“一袋骨头”我可以花好几个小时来看它们。我以前很想知道它们从哪儿来,怎么进到博物馆来的。现在我知道了。

Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. A few of them were as small as birds, but most were enormous. Some dinosaurs ate plants. Some dinosaurs ate the meat of other dinosaurs. And some may even have eaten the eggs of other dinosaurs. Dinosaurs lived almost everywhere on Earth. They lived for millions of years. Then they died out. No one is sure why they became extinct. But they did. There hasn't been a dinosaur around for 65 million years.

恐龙生活在数千万年前。有些恐龙像鸟一样小 但是大部分都很庞大。有些恐龙吃植物。有些吃其他恐龙的肉。还有些吃其他恐龙的蛋。当时恐龙几乎遍布地球的每个角落。它们存在了数千万年。后来灭绝了。没有人知道为什么。但的确是死光了。大约在 6500 万年前世界上就再没有恐龙了。

Until about 200 years ago, no one knew anything about dinosaurs. Then people began finding things in rock. They found large footprints. They found huge, mysterious bones and strange teeth. People were finding fossils. They began asking questions about them. Fossils are a kind of diary of the past. They are the remains of plants and animals that died long ago. Instead of rotting or crumbling away, the remains were preserved, and slowly turned to stone.

两百多年前,还没有人知道恐龙。后来人们在岩石中找到了一些东西。他们发现了大脚印。他们发现了巨大而神秘的骨头,还有奇怪的牙齿。他们一直在找化石。他们开始研究化石。 化石像是过去的日记,是很久以前死亡的动物和植物留下的残骸或遗迹。这些残骸或遗迹没有腐烂破碎,保留下来后,慢慢变成了石头。