原因如下：1830年，一位名叫乔治·兰金（George Rankin）的当地官员用一根绳子把自己吊入洞穴，这根绳子固定在洞穴壁的一个突出石块上。
Here's why: In 1830 a local official named George Rankin lowered himself into the cave on a rope tied to a protrusion in the cave wall.
布兰金读过信，心沉了下去。
难道这是伊恩·兰金的作品？
西蒙·兰金是个大个子。
见的人越多，布兰金越意识到他必须解开这个谜。
The more people he met, the more Blenkin realised he needed to solve this mystery.
今年六月初一个清新的早晨，布兰金着手工作，查看了电子邮件。
On a brisk morning in early June this year, Blenkin got into work and looked at his e-mails.
尘卷风是一种类兰金涡，旋转速度和压力的分布具有兰金组合涡的特点；
For dust devils, the tangential velocity profile behaves like Rankine vortex, so it could be regarded as a kind of Rankine-like vortex.
布兰金没有灰心，他继续把名单扩大到穿白工装裤的可能人群——军官队成员。
Undeterred, Blenkin pushed on and expanded his list to the next most likely group of people to be wearing white overalls - members of the officer corps.
不，伊恩·兰金否认了，他说他并不知道是谁制作了这些可爱的小东西，甚至根本无关。
He told the Edinburgh papers he had no idea who made these little books and he had nothing to do with it.
2001年，布兰金奉命加入包括一名考古学家，一名人类学家和两名法学牙医在内的团队。
In 2001, Blenkin was instructed to join a team including an archaeologist, a forensic anthropologist and two forensic dentists.
当记者们沉浸于欣赏这款最新的茶杯和纸杯蛋糕雕刻时，发现另一个作品仍与伊恩·兰金有关。
Reporters checked the newest teacup and cupcake, then the little fellow hiding in a forest for some sign of authorship, and once again found a connection to mystery writer Ian Rankin.
这个雕刻品与伊恩·兰金没有关联，但是它引用了诗人埃德温∙摩根的诗句——第一个雕刻作品中提到的诗人。
This sculpture had no known connection to Mr. Rankin, but it did quote from poet Edward Morgan - whose poem inspired the first sculpture.
本文介绍低沸点工作介质的兰金循环特点及目前国外运用这种循环方法回收和利用低温余热的情况。
The Rankine cycle of low boiling medium and its application to low temperature waste-heat recovery in foreign countries are reviewed.
两个兰金“男孩”只差两岁，曾经亲密无间，但后来为了从他们独身的父亲那里继承一匹赛马而争吵。
The Rankin "boys", only two years apart in age, had once been inseparable, but had fallen out over a racehorse they had inherited from their widower father.
这个不完整的，一碰就碎的东西是把钥匙，能让回到总部焦急等待的布兰金解开隐藏半个多世纪的一个谜。
Fragmented and perilously fragile, this was the key that would allow Blenkin, waiting impatiently back at his base, to begin unlocking a mystery over half a century old.
“大约挖下去1.8米处，我们找到了一小片木头，”布兰金说，“我们往下挖了一点，又发现了一些钉子。”
"About 1.8 metres down we found a small splinter of wood," Blenkin says. "we dug a little further and found some nails."
布兰金把颌骨送到阿得雷德实验室以后三周，收到了他一直期盼着的消息——奥斯丁已经提取到有用的基因物质。
Three weeks after delivering the jawbone to the Adelaide lab, Blenkin got the news he'd been hoping for - Austin had extracted usable genetic material.
苏格兰工程师和热力学创始人之一的威廉·兰金(William Rankine)是第一个解释这些重复的应力反向如何能够导致裂缝蔓延。
William Rankine, a Scottish engineer and one of the fathers of thermodynamics, was the first to explain how these repeated stress reversals could cause cracks to propagate.
彼此宽容，至少是对宽容的渴望。 米苏拉是珍妮特•兰金的故乡，她是第一个进入国会的女性（1916年），也是唯一投票反对美国参加一战和二战的国会议员。
Missoula was home to Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, in 1916, and the only member of Congress to vote against entering World War I and World War II.
公开这个“秘密”的人是罗琳的邻居、侦探小说作家伊恩•兰金。 《星期日泰晤士报》援引兰金的话说，这位《哈利•波特》的作者开始“转型”写侦探小说了。
The Sunday Times newspaper quoted Ian Rankin, a fellow author and neighbor of Rowling's as saying the creator of the "Harry Potter" books is turning to crime fiction.
就职于瑞士信贷投行部门的兰金(Robin Rankin)今年早些时候获得了晋升发表在《哈佛商业评论》(Harvard Business Review)上的这项研究发现，男性和女性得到提升或遭遇裁员的机率大致相当。
The study, being published in the Harvard Business Review, found men and women were roughly equally likely to be promoted or laid off.
兰开夏郡社区托儿所位于雷金纳德街。
兰普蕾女士40岁，已婚，有三个孩子，2008年失去了人力资源干事的职务，每周领取351美元的失业补助金。这些钱用于支付食品和天然气的花销。
Ms. Lampley, 40, who is married with three children, lost her job as a human resources officer in January 2008 and had been receiving $351 a week, which covered the groceries and gas.
但是小岛所有者迈克·弗里兰和泰莎·麦金托什(同时拥有附近的一座旅游小屋)非常高兴地参与，在将来这儿会被称为“蜜月岛”的建议。
But owners Mike Freeland and Tessa Macintosh, who also own a nearby tourist lodge, happily played along with Suggestions that in future it would be known as Honeymoon island.
该矿已被自由港麦克·莫兰公司开挖了好几十年，这是一家美国铜金业巨头。
The mine has been dug out over decades by Freeport-McMoRan, the American copper-and-gold giant.
朱迪·嘉兰因扮演的角色获得了1939年的奥斯卡青少年奖，之后又获得了芒奇金提名奖奖章。
Judy Garland won an Oscar Juvenile award in 1939 for her role; a gong she would later refer to as the Munchkin award.
俄亥俄州克里夫兰凯斯西保留地医学院心理学家雪利尔·金斯伯格说，这些问题的表现形式趋向多元。
It's the flavor of those problems that tends to differ, said Sheryl Kingsberg, a psychologist at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio.
皮尔金顿从1826年起就在兰开夏郡圣海伦斯的公司总部不见了，不过它的研究中心得以保留。
Pilkington's head office disappeared from St Helens in Lancashire, its home since 1826, but a research centre survives.
图片右下部的谢里塔矿（也属自由港麦克莫兰铜金公司）出产铜、钼和稀有金属铼。
The Sierrita Mine at image lower right (also owned by Freeport-McMoRan Copper &Gold) produces copper, molybdenum, and the rare metal rhenium.
弗兰最终获得本届世界杯金靴奖，他也成为了第四个荣膺世界杯金靴的拉美球员。
Forlan is the fourth Latin American player that receives the Golden Ball in FIFA World Cup tournament.
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