For more than a century, Tyrannosaurus rex has been the King of Dinosaurs, the carnivorous symbol of an entire age in the history of life on Earth.

近一个多世纪以来，雷克斯暴龙不但成为了恐龙帝国的统治者，更是整个地球生命史的肉食象征。

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"Tyrannosaurus" means "tyrant lizard" and "rex" is Latin for "king."

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I'm not rex, I'm not king, I'm not rex, my name is Caesar.

我不是君,我不是国王,我的名字是凯撒

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The word for king in Latin is rex.

在拉丁语中,"君"表示国王

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In 2006, he was Rex, the first King of Carnival after Hurricane Katrina.

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The first meager fossils were found in Montana by dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown, who shipped them back to the American Museum of Natural History, where the new species was promptly dubbed Tyrannosaurus rex--"king of the tyrant lizards"--by museum president Henry Fairfield Osborn.

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