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.
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.
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.
“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."
西蒙·兰金是个大个子。
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.
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.
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.
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.
布兰金读过信，心沉了下去。
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.
失业补助金已经结束的兰普蕾女士描述了艰难的就业市场。
Ms. Lampley, whose benefits have ended, described the tough job market.
摩押的长老和米甸的长老手里拿着卦金到了巴兰那里，将巴勒的话都告诉了他。
The elders of Moab and Midian left, taking with them the fee for divination. When they came to Balaam, they told him what Balak had said.
摩押的长老和米甸的长老手里拿着卦金，到了巴兰那里，将巴勒的话都告诉了他。
And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.
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.
在俄勒冈州尤金的一个双语学校里，校长帕可•福尔兰正帮助幼儿园的孩子（资料图）。
Principal Paco Furlan helps kindergarten students at a bilingual school in Eugene, Oregon (file photo).
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.
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.
在那之前不久，兰普提躲过了另一次敲诈，在阿斯顿维拉当时的主教练罗恩·阿特金森（Ron Atkinson）的干预下，他保住了维拉给他的签字费。
Shortly before that, Lamptey had averted another rip-off, of his signing-on fee for Aston Villa, when the then Villa manager Ron Atkinson intervened.
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.
金瑞奇的前任新闻秘书、华盛顿时报富有攻击性(Fire -breathing)的专栏作家托尼·布兰奇，说：“我们忽视了世界上其他人的看法，这是一件十分危险的事情。”
Tony Blankley, a former press secretary for Newt Gingrich and a fire-breathing columnist for the Washington Times, says that "We ignore world opinion at our peril."
2015米兰世博会：丹尼尔·里伯斯金完成了他的以龙为灵感的米兰世博会展馆，该展馆呈现出蜿蜒的身姿和鳞片状的红色、金色皮肤。
Milan Expo 2015: Daniel Libeskind has completed his dragon-inspired pavilion at the Milan Expo, which features a sinuous body and a scaly red and gold skin.
埃兰路球场的教练区、接待区和球员休息室里都布满了唐-李维、霍华德-威尔金森以及大卫-奥莱利治下著名球员的照片（译注：三人皆为利兹联史上知名的主帅）。
The manager's area, reception, and players lounge at Elland Road are covered with pictures of the great players who made their names under Don Revie, Howard Wilkinson and David O'Leary.
在那个小镇上，年轻的尤金·特雷布兰奇在同龄人中卓然不同，他不仅带领着学校的橄榄球队，还主持着校园辩论会。
The young Terre'Blanche stood out among his small-town peers, leading both the school rugby team and its debating club.
根据《金氏世界纪录大全》，布兰蒂这只吉娃娃狗，是世界上最小的狗狗。
According to the Guinness book of world records, Brandy, a Chihuahua, is the smallest dog in the world.
意大利工作室丹尼尔•里伯斯金为万科在2015年米兰世博会设计的万科馆设计方案在意大利米兰正式亮相。
Milan, Italy–Studio Daniel Libeskind unveiled the design for the Vanke Pavilion for Milan Expo 2015.
哈佛大学公共卫生医学院的流行病学专家金·伯特兰就表示，她真的没看出这有什么价值。
"I'm not really seeing the value in this," says Kim Bertrand, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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