And I am a dinosaur marching into the tar pit.

那我就是一只正在走进沥青坑的大恐龙咯。

I mean, sure, they tossed me into a flaming tar pit, but they worshiped me.

虽然后来把我抛进着火的柏油坑 但他们的确膜拜过我。

Heading further west, along Wilshire Boulevard, the aroma changes from the smell of tar pits, to $ mon-neeey $

沿着威尔希尔大道再往西走，空气中弥漫的气味从焦油变成钞票。

Do I think L.A. is a tar pit?

我觉得洛杉矶是个鬼地方吗？

She's talking about things that are " preserved right here" at the tar pits.

她说的是沥青坑“保存在这里”的东西。

No, I think you're the tar pit.

不 我觉得你才是。

He'll speak about what happened when the animals became trapped in the tar pits.

他将讲述当动物被困在焦油坑中时发生的事情。

Before you left town, you told me L.A. was a tar pit.

你离开前 你告诉我洛杉矶是个鬼地方。

At the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, fossil Condors are found alongside mastodons, horses, and bison.

在洛杉矶的拉布雷亚沥青坑中，秃鹰化石与乳齿象、马和野牛一起被发现。

If my stomach were making actual tar pit noises, I would probably need to go to a hospital.

如果我的胃真的发出焦油坑的声音，我可能需要去医院了。

Now, bone beds like these can be formed by tar pits that continuously trap unlucky animals over time.

现在，像这样的骨床可以由随着时间的推移不断困住倒霉动物的焦油坑形成。

Here, he's using the word " asphalt" to refer to the thick sticky tar in the tar pits themselves.

在这里，他使用“沥青” 一词来指代沥青坑中粘稠的焦油。

After ruling out death by tar pit, the paleontologists considered whether a predator might've been responsible.

在排除了焦油坑致死的可能性后，古生物学家开始考虑是否是捕食者造成的。

Why is there a museum for a tar pit?

为什么有一个沥青坑博物馆？

In fact, I used to live about five minutes from the tar pits.

事实上，我曾经住在离焦油坑大约五分钟的地方。

That's the name of the museum for the tar pit.

这是焦油坑博物馆的名字。

And for another, the proportion of juvenile sloths compared to adults doesn't match the age distributions we see at real tar pits.

另一方面，幼年树懒与成年树懒的比例与我们在真实焦油坑中看到的年龄分布不符。

If you ever visit beautiful Los Angeles, California, I definitely recommend going and seeing the tar pits.

如果你去过美丽的加利福尼亚州洛杉矶， 我绝对推荐你去看看沥青坑。

Tar pit deposits tend to be isolated, deep, and cone-shaped, but the fossils at Tanque Loma occur in a single, relatively flat layer.

焦油坑沉积物往往是孤立的、深的和锥形的，但 Tanque Loma 的化石出现在一个相对平坦的单一层中。

Scientists believe that many animals became trapped in the tar pits, and that's why we find their remains there today.

科学家认为， 许多动物被困在焦油坑中，这就是我们今天在那里找到它们遗骸的原因。