印度军队关于“耶蒂”证据的推文

印度军队关于“耶蒂”证据的推文

On Tuesday, the Indian Army found mysterious large footprints in the snow. The military group, on an outing in Nepal, took pictures and later put them on Twitter. Their conclusion: the footprints belong to the Yeti, also known as the “abominable snowman.”

周二，印度军队在雪地里发现了神秘的大脚印。军事小组在尼泊尔的一次郊游中拍摄照片，随后将他们发到Twitter上。他们的结论是：脚印是耶蒂的，也被称为“可憎的雪人”。

Most experts in the scientific community say the Yeti is a myth, an imaginary story.

科学界的大多数专家说，耶蒂是一个神话，一个虚构的故事。

The man-like creature is part of Nepali tradition and is said to live high in the Himalayan mountains.

这种类似人类的生物是尼泊尔传统的一部分，据说生活在喜马拉雅山的高处。

In the tweet, the Indian army said it found the footprints close to a camp near Mount Makalu on April 9. The footprints measured 81 centimeters by 38 centimeters.

在这条推文中，印度军队说，他们在4月9日马卡鲁山一个营地附近发现了这些脚印，脚印长81厘米，宽38厘米。

The tweet did not explain how a mythical beast could leave footprints.

这条推文并没有解释神话中的野兽是如何留下脚印的。

The Indian army’s Twitter post has drawn criticism by some on social media. One user, for example, put an image of a pothole in Bombay and noted that Yeti footprints could be found there.

印度军方Twitter上的帖子在社交媒体上遭到了一些人的批评。例如，一位用户上传了孟买一张坑洞的图片，并指出在那里可以找到耶蒂的脚印。

Other users noted that the supposed Yeti tracks appeared to be a single foot line. One user suggested the Yeti may have been riding a kind of strange bicycle.

其他用户注意到，所谓的耶蒂足迹好像是一条单一的脚线。一位用户表示，耶蒂可能骑了一种奇怪的自行车。

Mount Makalu, where the Indian Army took the photographs, is one of the highest mountains in the world. It stands near the Makalu-Barun valley, an area very far from human population.

马卡鲁山是印度军队拍摄这些照片的地方，它是世界上最高的山脉之一。它坐落在马卡鲁-巴伦山谷附近，是一个远离人口的地区。

The area has already been explored by researchers looking for the Yeti.

寻找耶蒂的研究人员已经对这个区域进行了考察。

Daniel C. Taylor is one of them. He wrote a book on the mystery of the Yeti. Taylor noted that the footprints likely came from a bear.

丹尼尔·C·泰勒就是其中之一，他写了一本关于耶蒂之谜的书，泰勒指出，这些脚印很可能是一只熊留下的。

Taylor told the Reuters news agency that if the footprints came from “an animal or a single animal, it’s the size of a dinosaur.”

泰勒告诉路透社，如果脚印来自“某种动物或一只动物，看大小那就是恐龙的”。

Taylor added, “One needs to really confirm those measurements of the footprint size because we know for sure that there are no dinosaurs living in the Barun valley.”

泰勒补充道：“我们需要真正确认足迹的大小，因为我们确信巴伦山谷里没有恐龙。”

Since the 1920s, tales of a wild beast have captured the imagination of climbers in Nepal and around the world.

自20世纪20年代以来，野兽的故事引起了尼泊尔和世界各地登山者的想象。

In 2008, Japanese climbers returning from a mountain in western Nepal told Reuters they had seen footprints, which they thought belonged to the Yeti.

2008年，从尼泊尔西部的一座山返回的日本登山者告诉路透社，他们看到了脚印，并认为是属于耶蒂人的。

Although they carried cameras, video equipment and telescopes, they had not seen or taken any photographs of the creature.

虽然他们携带相机、录像设备和望远镜，但他们没有看到或拍摄过这种生物的任何照片。

In 2017, a group of international researchers studied multiple Yeti samples. The researchers concluded the samples belonged to bears.

2017年，一组国际研究人员研究了多个耶蒂样本，研究人员得出结论，这些样本属于熊。

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beast – n. a wild animal that is large, dangerous, or unusual

pothole – n. a deep, round hole in a road or some other surface (such as the bottom of a river) — sometimes used figuratively