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| 1. | The Gona tools lay undisturbed until annual flooding of the nearby Awash river uncovered layers of sediment |
| 附近一年一度泛滥的阿瓦什河将一层层的沉积物和已成化石的石器展现在我们眼前。在此之前，戈纳石器无人触动。 |
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| 2. | Today Gona in Ethiopia is a place of climatic extremes. |
| 埃塞俄比亚戈纳地区现在的气候酷热无比。 |
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| 3. | Colleagues suggest that the toolmakers of Gona were Australopithecus, but Harris thinks not. |
| 同行们认为戈纳石器的制造者是南猿，但哈里斯却不同意。 |
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| 4. | Geochronologists at the University of California found that the stone tools from Gona were made just |
| 加州大学的地质年代学家们发现，戈纳石器正是在标志更新世开端的那次磁场逆转发生之前制造的。 |
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| 5. | And the tools at Gona bear strong similarities to those found at Olduvai Gorge. |
| 戈纳发现的石器与奥杜瓦伊峡谷发现的石器有强烈的相似之处。 |
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| 6. | In the middle of 1997, Harris and Semaw were returning to Gona to search for the fossils of the toolmaker |
| 1997年中，哈里斯和塞摩要回到戈纳去寻找石器制造者的化石。 |
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| 7. | Of these early primates, which is likely to have fashioned the tools found at Gona? |
| 在这些早期灵长动物中，可能是哪能一类制造了戈纳石器呢？ |
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| 8. | For Harris and Semaw, the landscape around Gona is an undisturbed treasure trove of the Earth as it was |
| 对于哈里斯和塞摩来说，戈纳附近的地貌是个聚宝盆，它保存了地球200多万年前的原貌而没受任何干扰。 |
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| 9. | Before the advent of the Gona toolmakers.The primates that inhabited the area were probably plant-eaters |
| 在戈纳石器制造者出现之前，生活在这里的灵长动物可能靠觅食植物生存。 |
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| 10. | The Gona tools raise yet more questions, says Harris.Their age and similarity to the tools found at Olduvai |
| 但哈里斯说，戈纳石器还引出其它问题：其年代及其与奥杜瓦伊峡谷石器的相似，说明远古技术发展冻结了近一百万年。 |
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