For more than 200 years, expeditions have set off into the jungles of the Congo river basin in search of the mythical Mobele-Mbembe - the "one who stops the flow of rivers," in a local Bantu dialect.

早在两百年前起，就有探险队深入刚果河流域的森林，寻找着传说中神秘的刚果恐龙——在当地班图语里，刚果恐龙意为“截河断流的怪物”。

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More recently, on a blazing summer day, he took me back to one of the den sites, in a slumping bank above the South Saskatchewan River.

最近，在夏天一个炽热的日子，他带我回到南萨斯喀彻温河坍塌河岸上这样一个巢穴地点。

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Instead of helping to turn out one more widget, you'd be cleaning up another few miles of river or teaching 10 more kids how to read.

你不再是帮着多生产一个小玩意儿，而是要多清理数英里的河道，或多教10个孩子学会阅读。

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They have seasonal access to wild-caught (better than farmed) King salmon (larger and more desirable than sockeye) from the Columbia River (one of the greatest salmon locales), and the piece I had, cooked on an alder wood plank, was THE best salmon I have ever tasted.

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