Philip Gingerich had unintentionally taken up this challenge in the mid-1970s.
70年代中期，菲利普．金格里奇无意中接受了挑战。
Later the same month Gingerich came across some archaic whale specimens in museums in Lucknow and Kolkata (Calcutta), India.
同月，金格里奇在印度勒克瑙(Lucknow)和加尔各答(Kolkata)的博物馆里偶然看到了古代鲸鱼标本。
Walking back to camp that evening, Gingerich and his team passed a group of village children playing dice with the astragali of a goat.
那天傍晚，在回营地的途中，金格·里奇和团队路过一个村庄，孩子们正用山羊踝骨玩骰子游戏。
Gingerich believes the first cetaceans probably resembled anthracotheres, svelte hippo-like browsers that inhabited swampy lowlands in Eocene times.
金格里奇相信第一批鲸和沼泽地碳兽十分相似，一种生活在始新世时期沼泽低地里，形似河马的小型食草动物。
Over the past 27 years Gingerich and his colleagues have located the remains of more than a thousand whales here, and countless more are left to be discovered.
在过去的27年里，金格里奇和同事们已在此地发现了1000多架鲸残骸，还有更多尚待发掘。
It was a bureaucratic problem, as it had to do with naming rights for these kinds of things, " said Owen Gingerich, the Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer who chaired the committee."
“这是一个官僚性质的问题，因为它涉及到对这些星体的命名权等诸如此类的事务”，作为委员会的主持者，哈佛大学斯密森学会的Owen Gingerich这样说到。
It was a bureaucratic problem, as it had to do with naming rights for these kinds of things, " said Owen Gingerich, the Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer who chaired the committee."
“这是一个官僚性质的问题，因为它涉及到对这些星体的命名权等诸如此类的事务”，作为委员会的主持者，哈佛大学斯密森学会的Owen Gingerich这样说到。
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