The Lost World 1925：1925 年失落的世界

One of the largest land animals that ever existed, the dinosaur Brontosaurus is now renamed Apatosaurus. This enormous plant-eater measured about 21 to 27 m long and about 4.6 m high at its hip. It weighed about 35 tonnes. Its head was less than 600 mm long with it had a long skull and a very tiny brain. This plant-eater had a long neck, with 15 vertebrae, a long whip-like tail of about 15 m long, a hollow backbone, peg-like teeth in the front of the jaws, and four massive, column-like legs. Its hind legs were larger than the front legs.

雷龙/勃龙是有史以来最大的陆生动物之一。恐龙雷龙现在称为雷龙。这种巨大的食草动物，其长约21至27 m，高约4.6 m。它重约35吨。它的头不到600毫米长，它有一个长长的头骨和一个很小的大脑。该食草者的脖子较长，有15个椎骨，长约15m的长鞭状尾巴，空心骨干，颌骨前部有长钉状的牙齿，还有四根巨大的圆柱状腿。它的后腿比前腿大。
让我们先看电影。这将持续一个小时，甚至更多。当然，您可以跳过电影并首先阅读故事。单击此处观看：https://youtu.be/c_9lOglawu4。 

 Let us watch the movie first. It will last a full hour and a little bit more. Of course, you can skip the movie and read the story first. Click here to watch: https://youtu.be/c_9lOglawu4

Professor Challenger, in London‘s Office of the Records Journal, announced: “The prehistoric creatures are alive and flourishing in the Amazon jungle today and I intend to mount an expedition to prove this.”

查龙德教授在伦敦记录办公室宣布：“史前生物在如今的亚马逊丛林中仍在繁衍生息，我打算进行一次探险来证明这一点。” 记者爱德华·马隆（Edward Malone）说：“我将与您一起进行这次探险，以找到有关您对生命恐龙的宣称的真相。” 查龙德教授说：“不，你不能去，这将给团队成员增加负担。”

“I volunteer to go with you,” journalist Edward Malone said. “No, you are not,” said Professor Challenger, “you will be an added burden to the team members.”

“But, ” replied Edward (Ed, for short), “I can assist you in planning your itinerary and in organising your activities. As a reporter, I can also keep proper records of events.”

“但是，”爱德华（简称 Ed）回答说，“我可以协助您计划行程和组织活动。作为记者，我还可以保留活动的适当记录。”

Do you want to know the real reason why Ed volunteered to do this dangerous adventure? Here is the reason why … …

“I will only marry you if you can prove to me that you are willing to do at least one courageous act to make you well known to the entire City of London,” said Gladys Hungerford to Edward Malone.

您是否想知道Ed自愿参加此危险冒险活动的真正原因？以下就是为什么……. 格拉迪斯·亨格福德对爱德华·马龙说：“只有当你能向我证明你愿意做至少一个勇敢的举动，使你在整个伦敦市里广为人知时，我才会与你结婚。”

Ed Malone was a journalist working in The Times, a well-respected newspaper that wanted to know the truth about Professor Challenger claim. With the help of his friend, Sir John Roxton, Ed managed to persuade his newspaper to fund the entire expedition.

埃德·马龙（Ed Malone）是《泰晤士报》（Times）的一名记者，该报备受尊敬，希望了解有关查龙德教授主张的真相。在他的朋友约翰·罗克斯顿爵士的帮助下，爱德设法说服他的报纸支付了这次探险所产生的所有费用。

Another member of the expedition was Paula White whose father was a missing explorer in a previous trip to the South America’s Amazon region where the dinosaurs were reportedly found. Then the friend of Paula’s father, Colin McArdle, also joined the team.

探险队的另一名成员是保拉·怀特（Paula White），他的父亲在前往南美亚马逊地区的一次旅行中失踪了探险家，据报道该地区发现了恐龙。然后，宝拉（Paula）父亲的朋友科林·麦卡德（Colin McArdle）也加入了团队。

At the Zoological Hall, Sir John Roxton, a famous hunter and explorer, stood before a dinosaur skeleton and greeted the gathering to hear Challenger talk. Roxton was an openminded scientist and he began his introduction of the Professor: “The back country of the Amazon contains over fifty thousands miles of unexplored water-ways. I shall let Professor Challenger talk on his pet subject - his up-coming expedition - and he can answer questions later. Just to be sure that you know my position, I must tell you that I shall be a member of his team, simply because I want to verify the truth of his statements now being delivered to you. Professor … ” 

在动物学堂，著名的猎人和探险家约翰·罗克斯顿爵士站在恐龙骨架前，向聚会致意，以听听查龙德的讲话。罗克斯顿（Roxton）是位思维开阔的科学家，他开始介绍查龙德教授：“亚马逊的偏远国家拥有五万多英里未开发的水路。他可以稍后回答问题，只是为了确保您了解我的职位，我必须告诉您我将成为他的团队的成员，只是因为我想验证他现在所发表声明的真实性。 “

At the gathering, Professor Summerlee led a boisterous crowd who shouted, “Bring on your animals! Bring on your dinosaur! We don’t believe you. ”

在聚会上，萨默里教授带领一群热闹的人群大喊：“带上你的动物！带上你的恐龙！我们不相信你。”

Paula produced her father’s sketchbook that showed “Carnivorous Beast Allosaurus” and “We scan up to a Living Brontosaurus and my father, Maple White, actually saw these monsters. They were tremendous in size and in ferocity . . . those beasts,” Paula felt faint at recounting her journey with her father.

宝拉（Paula）制作了父亲的素描本，上面写着“食肉兽异龙”和“我们扫描到活的雷龙，而我的父亲枫白（Maple White）实际上看到了这些怪物。它们的大小和凶猛……这些野兽，”宝拉感到难以叙述她和父亲的旅程。

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We next saw the explorers canoeing past a leopard, a snake (at which Paula’s pet monkey Jocko freaks), and sloths. At camp, Malone’s typing indicated three weeks had passed. An apeman and his chimp sidekick dropped a boulder on to the camp, but hit no one. The explorers saw a pterodactyl fly to the pinnacle across from the plateau and decided to fell the remaining tree in order to form a bridge to cross over. Once across the bridge, the explorers saw a Brontosaurus — feeding merely on leaves. It was perfectly harmless — unless we happened to be the first to attack the animal.

接下来，我们看到探险家乘独木舟越过豹子，蛇（宝拉的宠物猴子乔科怪胎在那儿）和树懒。在营地，马龙的打字表明已经过去了三个星期。猿人和他的黑猩猩同伴向营地投下一块巨石，但没有击中任何人。探险家们看到翼龙从高原飞向峰顶，并决定倒下剩下的那棵树，以便架起一座跨越的桥梁。穿过桥后，探险者们看到了雷龙-仅靠树叶觅食。这是完全无害的-除非我们碰巧是第一个攻击该动物的人。

The explorers encountered an allosaurus - -a meat-eater — the most vicious pest of the ancient world. They watched an allosaurus fought another dinosaur until it fell into a bog. It also harassed a triceratops family but the two adults succeeded in protecting the young one. Te triceratops formed protective family bonds. The allosaurus went after the humans at night. They shot it in the snoot but it ran away only when they threw a torch into its mouth. Later, it has another fight with another triceratops, and the latter won. Another allosaur in turn killed the triceratops and a pterodactyl.

探险家遇到了异特龙-食肉者-古代世界中最恶毒的害虫。他们看着异特龙与另一只恐龙战斗，直到它陷入沼泽。它也骚扰了三角恐龙家庭，但两个成年恐龙成功地保护了年轻恐龙。三角恐龙形成了保护性家庭纽带。异特龙在晚上追捕人类。他们用鼻子打了它，但是只有当他们将火把扔进嘴里时，它才消失。后来，它又与另一个三角龙打了一场，后者赢了。另一种异体又杀死了三角龙和翼手龙。

Ed Malone busied himself typing out records of daily events and reported these back to his newspapers.

埃德·马龙（Ed Malone）忙于自己整理日常事件的记录，并将其报告给他的报纸。

Jocko, Paola’s pet monkey, was a valuable member of the team. The reason was that this monkey helps in delivering the string and rope ladders to the explorers in the caves of the plateau.

保罗（Paola）的宠物猴乔科（Jocko）是团队的重要成员。原因是这只猴子有助于将绳梯运送给高原洞穴中的探险者。

Fightings amongst the dinosaurs and other mammals were common sights at the Plateau.

在高原上，恐龙和其他哺乳动物之间的战斗是常见的景象。

Ed climbed up a tree to see more of the surroundings of the Plateau.

Malone and Paula grew closer together: “Now that we have found these caves we could live here for the rest of our lives — if we had some weapon capable of making a dent in a dinosaur!” Meanwhile, Roxton found the skeletal remains of Maple White and a passage out to the sheer cliff wall on the other side of the plateau. He also found the pocket watch of Maple White that had the photograph of Paola etched inside the cover.

马龙和宝拉之间的距离越来越近：“现在，我们已经找到了这些洞穴，我们可以在这里度过余生-如果我们拥有能够使恐龙产生凹痕的武器！”同时，罗克斯顿（Roxton）发现了枫白（Maple White）的骨骼遗骸，并发现了通往高原另一侧的陡峭悬崖壁的通道。他还发现了枫白怀表，其表壳上刻有Paola的照片。

A volcano then erupted and animals run in panic. Fire spreads, but no human was killed. Afterwards, baby dinos eat the corpses of other mammals. Jocko climbed with ropes to be handed to the others on the plateau top. The explorers climbed down rope ladders. The last one down was almost pulled up again by the apeman, but a bullet made him drop the ladder.

火山爆发后，动物惊慌失措。火势蔓延，但没有人丧生。之后，小恐龙吃掉了其他哺乳动物的尸体。乔科（Jocko）爬上绳索，将其交给高原上的其他人。探险者们爬下绳梯。最后一个下降的人几乎被猿人再次提起，但是子弹使他掉下了梯子。

The explorers built a steel cage and a raft to transport one brontosaur back to London. When unloading the cage, the cables broke and the brontosaur ran wild in the streets. It knocked people down with its swiping tail. It knocked over statues and burned its snow on streetlamp. Tower bridge over River Thames was not sturdy enough for it. The brontosaur fell through the bridge and into the water. It swam out to sea and was never seen again.

探险者们建造了一个钢笼和一个木筏，将一只雷龙运回伦敦。卸下笼子时，电缆断了，雷龙在街上狂奔。它用挥动的尾巴撞倒了人们。它撞倒了雕像，并在路灯上烧了雪。泰晤士河上的塔桥不够坚固。雷龙穿过桥落入水中。它游出大海，再也没有见过。