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Australia Aborigines - the Native Australians
澳大利亞土著人—澳大利亞原住民
Aborigines probably came to Australia from Indonesia 50,000 years ago.
土著人很可能是五萬年前從印度尼西亞遷來澳大利亞的。
The oldest bone found in Australia was at Lake Mungo in New South Wales.
在新南威爾士洲的芒戈湖發現了澳大利亞最早的人骨。
Scientists believe it is 38,000 years old and it carried some ceremonial paint.
科學家認為它已經有38,000年歷史了，而且上面有為祭祀涂抹的顏料。
Aborigines were nomads.
土著人是游牧民族。
Originally, they didn't have a sense of land ownership,
起初，他們對土地所有權沒有認識，
although Aboriginal children were taught from an early age that
盡管土著兒童從小被這樣教育著：
they belonged to the land and must respect tribal boundaries.
他們屬于這片土地，他們必須尊重部落邊界。
Tribes returned to particular places to bury their dead.
各個部落返回特定的區域埋葬部落中的死者。
Some places, like Uluru, were sacred because they were associated with the "Dreamtime",
有些地方—像烏魯魯—曾是神圣的，因為他們與“夢想時代”相聯系，
the time when the Earth was formed and cycles of life and nature began.
那時地球正在形成，且生命和自然的周期剛剛開始。
Aboriginal legends, songs and dances tell of powerful spirits who created the land and people during the Dreamtime.
土著的傳說、歌曲和舞蹈講述創造土地的強大神靈以及夢想時代的人們的故事。
There was no written Aboriginal language and, in fact,
土著語言沒有書面文字，事實上，
most of the 600 tribes spoke different dialects and rarely met except on ceremonial occasions.
600多個部落中的大部分部落都說著不同的方言，除了遇到慶典，部落之間很少見面。
