(1) Say, buddy, not to cast aspersions on your survival instincts or nothing, but haven't mammoths pretty much gone extinct?
老兄，我不是怀疑你求生的本能，但是，猛犸象似乎快绝种了吧？The first human inhabitants of North America may not have exterminated the mammoths. The culprit might have been a comet.
北美洲最早的人类可能不是灭绝猛犸象的凶手。真正的罪犯有可能是一颗彗星。The elephant is the closest modern relative of the mammoth, a huge woolly mammal believed to have died out with the last Ice Age.
一般认为全身多毛的猛犸象灭绝于上一个冰河世纪，而大象是现存的与猛犸象亲缘关系最近的动物。"It was a mammoth tusk, " Ivanovich said. "It wasn't very big, " his wife, Valentina, pointed out. "There are lots of them, " she added.
伊万诺维奇说，“是根猛犸象（又名长毛象）象牙。”他妻子瓦莲京娜补充，“这根不太大，但那儿有很多象牙。”Here's the give-away, a pair of tusks two metres long, the trademark of a Columbian mammoth, the biggest animal to roam the ice age plains.
这是赠品，一对两米长的象牙，一个哥伦比亚猛犸象的商标，冰河时代的平原上最大的动物。The divergence of the two species took place around the time of the divergence of Asian elephants and woolly mammoths.
这两个物种的分歧发生前后的差异和长毛猛犸象亚洲象。In an extraordinary Jurassic Park- style experiment, DNA from a frozen specimen of the extinct giant was used to reproduce their blood.
在一项非同寻常的“侏罗纪公园”（JurassicPark）式的实验中，已灭绝的巨型猛犸象的一个冰冻标本的DNA被用于再造它们的血液。One of the mammoths, you hope, is going to be your supper.
你期望着这其中某头猛犸象将会成为你今天的晚餐。The site turned out to be a mammoth graveyard, hiding more than 50 skeletons, all from animals in their prime.
这片遗址变成了猛犸象的墓地，有超过50具骨骼在此，都是处于它们的鼎盛时期。