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and I try to explain them away,

我现在要来解释这些都是假的
"Well, you know, it's the first time people,

"人们第一次
Europeans, saw the rhinoceros.

欧洲人第一次看到犀牛
It sort of reminded them of a horse with a big horn.

随之联想到一头长着大角的马
And maybe that's where the reports of rhinoceros came--

也许独角兽
or the various reports of the unicorn came from.

就是这么来的
The various unicorn horns that

各种各样独角兽的角
have been offered in various collections,

被收集起来
upon examination by biologists turn out to be narwhal horns,

交给生物学家鉴定结果证明
horns from whales, and so forth and so on."

其实就是独角鲸的角或是别的什么
You look at each bit of evidence that

每一条说独角兽存在的证据
gets offered on behalf of the unicorn and you debunk it.

你都能揭穿它们的真相