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On board the endeavour, a crew of 74,
在"奮進號"上的74名船員
Living on decks less than four feet high.
他們生活的甲板還不足四英尺高
An era when half of all sailors die from disease.
有一半船員會死于疾病
They cross an uncharted ocean That covers a third of the planet:The pacific.
他們穿越未知海域 那正是覆蓋地表面積三分之一的 太平洋
Now, after 20 months at sea,
在海上航行了二十個月之后
Cook and his crew step onto a mysterious, new continent:Australia.
庫克和他的船員們登上了一片神秘的新大陸: 澳大利亞
Australia's aboriginal people Settled the continent 50,000 years ago.
澳大利亞的原住民 五萬年前就定居于此
The oldest living culture in the world.250 languages, 600 dialects.
是世界上現(xiàn)存最古老的文明 擁有兩百五十種語言 六百種方言
They invent sharpened axes 15,000 years before Europeans.
他們比歐洲人早一萬五千年發(fā)明鋒利的斧頭
"Tell them we mean them no harm."
"告訴他們我們沒有惡意"
Cook's Polynesian translator Tupia tries to negotiate the first encounter.
庫克的波利尼西亞翻譯托皮亞 試著進行第一次溝通
"Neither us nor Tupia could understand One word they said.
我們和托皮亞都完全聽不懂 他們說的話
"They again came to oppose us,"I fired a musket between the two."
他們又要來襲擊我們了 我朝那兩人中間開了一槍
