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Squanto teaches them to fish And use their catch as fertilizer.
斯匡托教他們捕魚 并把捕來的魚用作肥料
It surely must have come as a revelation
看到有人用魚來讓土壤變得高產
to see people using fish to make the soil more productive.
對他們來說無疑是個驚人的發現
To the early Pilgrims,it must have been quite a surprise.
對于早期的朝圣者而言 這無疑讓他們大為震驚
And a crop they have never seen before:Corn.
還有一種他們從未見過的作物 玉米
The key to their survival And still today the most widely grown crop in the Americas.
這是他們生存的關鍵 直到今天 玉米也是美洲種植最為廣泛的作物
William Bradford records:"We set some 20 acres of corn,"
威廉·布雷德福記載道 我們參照印第安人的方式
"According to the manner of the Indians.
種了大約二十英畝的玉米
"And now we began to gather up the small harvest.
而現在我們已小有所獲
"We were well recovered in health "And had all things in plenty."
我們重新恢復健康 一切供應充足"
They discovered, perhaps to their surprise,
可能出乎所料的是 他們發現
that the Indians weren't simply savages
印第安人并不僅僅是
who simply hunted and fished,they had grown crops.
只會狩獵捕魚的野蠻人 他們還會種植農作物
There was an exchange of ideas,each side learned from the other,
雙方交流思想 相互學習
and it seemed like a productive enterprise on behalf of both sides.
這看起來像是代表雙方的 一家生產企業
A moment of co-operation all too rare In the story of the new world.
在新世界的歷史上 這樣的合作時刻實在是曇花一現
