We have touched already on the unlikelihood of any set of bones becoming fossilized, but the record is actually worse than you might think.

经简单谈到任何一副骨骼变成化石的不可能性，但这类记录的贫乏程度你想像的还要严重。

He would have doubted her being over thirty or under thirteen; and yet, in a curious way, such manifest unlikelihoods could neither of them be ruled out as wholly impossible.

他会怀疑她是三十多岁还是十三岁以； ，奇怪的是，如此明显的可能性都不能被排除为完全不可能。