5 WATCH YOUR TAIL, MARY ANNING

WATCH YOUR TAIL MARY, ANNING It was cold outside. The two girls squished into Bean's tiny playhouse. "How long do we have to stay out here?" asked Ivy. "I don't know. He said until dinner, but I don't think he meant it." Bean sighed. She knew he meant it. "Is your mom home?" "Not yet, I don't think." "Bummer." "He'll let us in if it starts raining, won't he?" "Yeah, but I don't think it's going to rain," said Bean, peering out the bitty window at the sky. "Mary Anning used to go out hunting for fossils in storms. She didn't mind" said,

玛丽，安妮，小心你的尾巴外面很冷。 两个女孩挤进比恩的小游戏室。 “我们要在外面呆多久？”艾薇问。 “我不知道。他说等到吃晚饭，但我觉得他不是那个意思。” 豆叹了口气。她知道他是认真的。 “你妈妈在家吗？”“我想还没有。” “懒汉”。“如果开始下雨，他会让我们进去的，是吗？”“是啊，不过我觉得不会下雨的。”比恩说着，从小窗户往外看天空。 “玛丽·安宁过去常常在暴风雨中出去寻找化石。 她不介意，”她说，

Ivy. "She built her own wooden tower next to the cliff where she saw the skeleton, and she lay down on it and chipped the ichthyosaur out of the cliff even though the tower was shaking and the rain was pouring down on her." "Why didn't she just wait until it stopped raining?" asked Bean. "She was afraid that the bones would get washed away in the storm," explained Ivy. "Wow." Bean pictured herself lying bravely on top of a shaking wooden tower with rain falling in her eyes. "It took her a year to get the whole body out," Ivy added. "Chip, chip, chip, a tiny bit at a time." "A year!" yelped Bean. "Didn't she get bored out of her mind?"

艾薇。“她在悬崖旁边建造了自己的木塔，就在她看到骨架的地方，她躺在木塔上，把鱼龙从悬崖上摔了下来，尽管木塔在摇晃，雨水倾泻在她身上。” “她为什么不等雨停了再说呢？”比恩问。 “她担心骨头会被暴风雨冲走，”艾薇解释说。 “哇。”比恩想象着自己勇敢地躺在颤抖的木塔上，雨水打在她的眼睛里。 “她花了一年的时间才把整个身体弄出来，”艾薇补充说。 “一点一点，一点一点，一次一点点。” “一年！”比恩大叫。“难道她没有无聊到发疯吗？”

"No," said Ivy. "It takes a lot of patience to dig up fossils." She sat up and peered out the other bitty window of the playhouse. "Dinosaurs lived all over, you know." "I know." "There were dinosaurs around here, too. Not ichthyosaurs, but other kinds." "Maybe just little ones," said Bean. "Maybe just little ones," said Ivy. "But still dinosaurs",. "I've always liked those little ones with the deadly claws," said Bean. "Mary Anning found fossils right on the

“不，”艾薇说。“挖掘化石需要很大的耐心。” 她坐起来，从游戏屋的另一扇小窗户往外看。 “你知道，恐龙到处都有。” “我知道。”“这附近也有恐龙。 不是鱼龙，而是其他种类的。” “也许只有小的，”比恩说。 “也许只有小的，”艾薇说。 “但仍然是恐龙”，。“我一直很喜欢那些长着致命爪子的小家伙，”比恩说。 玛丽·安宁发现的化石就在

top of the ground, but sometimes they're buried deep in the dirt. We might have to dig for a long time before we find one." "That's okay. We're patient," said Bean. She was beginning to get it. "Where do you keep your shovels?" said Ivy. Bean loved to dig. Her shovel flashed, and dirt flew through the air. Soon, there was a nice, wide hole next to the trampoline. Ivy knelt beside it and ran her fingers through the dirt.

在地面上，但有时它们被深埋在泥土里。 我们可能要挖很长时间才能找到。” “没关系。我们有耐心，”比恩说。 她开始明白了。 “你把铲子放在哪里？”艾薇说。 比恩喜欢挖土。她的铲子一闪，泥土在空中飞扬。 很快，蹦床旁边出现了一个又好又宽的洞。 艾薇跪在它旁边，用手指抠着泥土。

"We have to inspect every bit of it," Ivy said. "Even slivers of bone are important to paleontologists." "What's that?" "That's us," said Ivy. "The people who dig up dinosaurs are called paleontologists." "Cool." Bean felt cheerful. She loved the crunch of her shovel as it went into the earth. She loved hurling the dirt behind her without looking. Whee! "Hey, watch out! You got dirt in my hair!" cried Ivy. "We're paleontologists! We can't be afraid of a little dirt!" yelled Bean. The hole was almost 2 feet deep, and the dirt was getting darker and wetter. She flung a big hunk of it over her shoulder. "Ouch!" Something bounced off of Ivy's head and landed next to her knee. She picked it up, brushing away the mud that

“我们必须检查每一个角落，”艾薇说。 “即使是骨头碎片对古生物学家来说也很重要。” “那是什么?”“那是我们，”艾薇说。 “挖掘恐龙的人被称为古生物学家。” “酷”。比恩感到很高兴。 她喜欢铲土时发出的嘎吱声。 她喜欢看都不看就把泥土扔到身后。 哟!“嘿，小心！”你把土弄到我头发上了！”艾薇叫道。 “我们古生物学家!我们不能害怕一点脏东西！”比恩喊道。 这个洞差不多有两英尺深，泥土越来越黑，越来越湿。 她把一大块扔到肩上。 “哎哟!”有什么东西从艾薇的头上弹了下来，落在她的膝盖旁边。 她把它捡起来，拂去上面的泥

was stuck to it. What was it? It was about as long as her hand. It was narrow at one end and flared out at the other. It was grayish brown. It was a bone. "Bean!" Ivy gasped. "Lookit! I got one." Bean's shovel crashed to the ground, and she rushed to Ivy's side. Ivy handed her the gray brown bone. Bean stared at it and then gave a long whistle. "Watch your tail, Mary Anning!" she said. "Here we come."

我坚持了下来。是什么？ 它大约和她的手一样长。 它的一端很窄，另一端则呈喇叭形。 它是灰褐色的。那是一根骨头。 “豆!”艾薇气喘吁吁地说。“听着! !我有一个。” 比恩的铲子掉在地上，她冲到艾薇身边。 艾薇把灰棕色的骨头递给她。 比恩盯着它，然后吹了一声长长的口哨。 “小心你的尾巴，玛丽·安宁！”她说。 “我们来了。”