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59.Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
59.歐洲人到來(lái)之前，誰(shuí)生活在美洲？
Answer: Native Americans；American Indians
答案：美洲原住民；印第安人
Explanation: Most Americans are taught that an explorer (or a person who goes to an unknown place to learn about it) named Christopher Columbus discovered (or found) America in 1492.
解釋：大多數(shù)美國(guó)人都被教導(dǎo)，一位名叫克里斯托弗·哥倫布的探險(xiǎn)家（或前往未知之地去了解的人）在1492年發(fā)現(xiàn)了（或找到了）美洲。
But the truth is that millions of people were already living in North and South American before Christopher Columbus ever arrived on the American shore (or the land next to an ocean).
但事實(shí)是，在哥倫布到達(dá)美洲海岸（鄰近海洋的土地）之前，就已經(jīng)有數(shù)百萬(wàn)人生活在南北美洲。
Christopher Columbus was surprised to see the natives (or people who are born in America).
看到美洲原住民（或在美洲出生的人）克里斯托弗·哥倫布很是驚訝。
He thought that he had landed in the East Indies on his way to India, so he called the people he met there.
他以為他在去印度的途中登上了東印度群島，因此他稱在那兒遇到的人為印第安人。
Today, these people are usually called American Indians or Native Americans.
如今，這些人通常被稱為印第安人或美洲原住民。
The arrival of Christopher Columbus and other Europeans in the New World (or North and South America) was devastating (or extremely bad) for the Native Americans.
克里斯托弗·哥倫布和其他歐洲人的到來(lái)，對(duì)新世界（或南北美洲）的美洲原住民來(lái)說(shuō)是災(zāi)難性的（或極其糟糕的）。
Millions of Native Americans died because of epidemic diseases, which were illnesses that made a large number of the Native Americans sick very quickly.
數(shù)百萬(wàn)美洲原住民死于流行疾病，也就是讓很多美洲原住民迅速生病的疾病。
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