【漢英對(duì)照】《夢(mèng)溪筆談》澤州化石 Fossils in Zezhou
沈括 著
【原文】
《夢(mèng)溪筆談·卷21異事18》
治平中，澤州人家穿井，土中見(jiàn)一物，蜿蜿如龍蛇。畏之不敢角，久之見(jiàn)其不動(dòng)，試撲之，乃石也。村民無(wú)知，遂碎之。時(shí)程伯純?yōu)闀x城令，求得一段，鱗甲皆如生物。蓋蛇蜃（shèn）所化，如石蟹之類(lèi)。
【今譯】
治平年間，澤州有家人家打井，在土里看到一樣?xùn)|西，形狀象龍蛇那樣彎彎曲曲。人們害怕，不敢觸摸。過(guò)了很久，看見(jiàn)它不動(dòng)，就試著拍打了它一下，原來(lái)是石頭。村里的人無(wú)知，將它打碎了。當(dāng)時(shí)程伯純?cè)跁x城當(dāng)縣官，拿到一段，上面的鱗甲都象活的一樣，大概是蛇蜃之類(lèi)的生物變化而成的。就象我們看到的已經(jīng)變成石頭的螃蟹一樣。
【英譯】
Mengxi Bitan Chapter 21 Yishi 18
During Zhiping period of the reign of Emperor ?Yingzong, a family in Zezhou found an object in the earth when digging a ?well. It was winding like a snake or a dragon. At first they did not dare to ?touch it. Seeing that it remained motionless for a long while, they began to ? lay their hands on it and found that it was a stone-like object. As the villagers were ignorant, they broke it into pieces. At that time Cheng Bochun ?was the county magistrate of Jincheng, he got a small piece and found that ?its scales looked like those of a living creature. Most probably it was ?transformed from a snake-like animal in the same way as the fossil of the ?crab was.
