because you roll up the scroll and you just have the

因为卷起卷轴你只能看到
leftover parts at the back.

后面的残留部分
Or maybe it got in a fire and burnt,

或者它着了火被烧掉了
maybe the last few verses

可能最后的几个小节
the last part of the Gospel burnt.

这福音书的最后一部分被烧了
Obviously ancient people had the same sense of uneasiness

显然古人们对此有着相同的担忧
with the way--with Mark ending at 16:8 and

因为马可福音结束于16章8节
what you've got in that shorter ending and

这就是短结尾
the longer ending were later compositions of scribes,

而长结尾是经文抄写者后来加上的
Christian scribes, who thought you can't end Mark's Gospel that way,

基督教的文士觉得马可福音这样结束不好
so they made up those other verses and

于是他们加上了那些小节
they put them at the end of the manuscript they were copying.

把它们放在他们抄写的手稿之后