英语听力：探索发现 2012-06-22 恐龙是怎样的炼成的—15

 But even working out exactly what an adult T-rex would have looked like only gives you a snapshot of a moment in time. To really understand this animal, we need to know how it changed over the course of its entire life. And that's why Luis's team are attempting the first ever reconstruction¹ of a baby T-rex. 

 

-There are some small, very tiny segments of the baby. But some of them are so small that we can't match anything up. Nothing like this has ever been found before.

 

It's much harder to recreate a baby than an adult. Only a few tiny fragments of a skeleton have ever been found. Paul's colleague Tommy is trying to piece together the remains² from a little more than dinosaur³ dust.

 

-There’s not a lot of pieces and it’s only for the skull⁴. See, I mean I've got several little pieces put together. Its bones had similar colour. Their texture⁵ on the surface was pretty close. And a lot of times I would look at the edge of the bone. You see, this one has a little white and a little black. A lot of times I was just trying to piece to see if they’d fit. A lot of people find it boring. But I don’t know. It calms me.

 

Although useful for scientists, these fossil remains are far too limited to bring a baby T-rex to life for an audience. And that's why the entire baby skeleton will be a model, its bones made not from fossils, but from foam⁶ and resin⁷. This is where the artists come in. They will produce creatures from their imaginations but they have to be guided by the science which provides them with a range of possibilities. Ultimately the animal that they draw or sculpt⁸ will be a blend of science and art. The baby T-rex will be sculpted⁹ by Doil, one of Louis's artists. 

 

-When you’re doing something that's brand new that there is no precedent¹⁰ for, it can be a little nerve-racking and it can be a lot fun. For my baby T-rex, there is no reference for that. So there’s a lot of interpretation¹¹ there. With his…

1 reconstruction   

n.重建，再现，复原

参考例句：

• The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后，该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
• In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期，技术决定一切。

2 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

3 dinosaur   

n.恐龙

参考例句：

• Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击？
• He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。

4 skull   

n.头骨；颅骨

参考例句：

• The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
• He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。

5 texture   

n.(织物)质地；(材料)构造；结构；肌理

参考例句：

• We could feel the smooth texture of silk.我们能感觉出丝绸的光滑质地。
• Her skin has a fine texture.她的皮肤细腻。

6 foam   

v./n.泡沫，起泡沫

参考例句：

• The glass of beer was mostly foam.这杯啤酒大部分是泡沫。
• The surface of the water is full of foam.水面都是泡沫。

7 resin   

n.树脂，松香，树脂制品；vt.涂树脂

参考例句：

• This allyl type resin is a highly transparent, colourless material.这种烯丙基型的树脂是一种高度透明的、无色材料。
• This is referred to as a thixotropic property of the resin.这种特性叫做树脂的触变性。

8 sculpt   

n.雕刻，雕塑，雕刻品，雕塑品

参考例句：

• When I sculpt,my style is expressionistic.我的雕刻风格是表现主义。
• Then,sculpt the remaining fringe parting.然后雕刻剩余的边缘部分。

9 sculpted   

adj.经雕塑的

参考例句：

• a display of animals sculpted in ice 冰雕动物展
• The ladies had their hair sculpted by the leading coiffeur of the day. 女士们的发型都是当代有名的理发师做的。

10 precedent   

n.先例，前例；惯例；adj.在前的，在先的

参考例句：

• Is there a precedent for what you want me to do?你要我做的事有前例可援吗？
• This is a wonderful achievement without precedent in Chinese history.这是中国历史上亘古未有的奇绩。

11 interpretation   

n.解释，说明，描述；艺术处理

参考例句：

• His statement admits of one interpretation only.他的话只有一种解释。
• Analysis and interpretation is a very personal thing.分析与说明是个很主观的事情。