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Easter Island’s stone-carved statues permanently damaged
大火失控！復活節島神秘石像遭到永久性破壞
A fire, caused by the nearby Rano Raraku volcano, razed more than 100 hectares of Easter Island, damaging its famous stone-carved statues known as "Moai", which were created by a Polynesian tribe over 500 years ago, local officials reported.
當地官員稱，一場由拉諾?拉拉庫火山（Rano Raraku volcano）引發的大火席卷了復活節島100余公頃的土地，破壞了島上著名的由500多年前波利尼西亞一個部落創造的摩艾（Moai）石像。
Polynesian seafarers first arrived on Rapa Nui approximately 900 years ago, and have long made researchers curious about why the huge statues were placed where they are. According to UNESCO, the Polynesian society settled on the island and established a "powerful, imaginative and original tradition of monumental sculpture and architecture, free from any external influence," such as the "erected enormous stone figures known as Moai, which created an unrivaled landscape that continues to fascinate people throughout the world."
距今約900年前，波利西尼亞人從海上第一次來到拉帕努伊（Rapa Nui）島（拉帕努伊是當地人對復活節島的稱呼）。長期以來，研究人員都十分好奇這些巨大的雕像究竟從何而來。聯合國教科文組織稱，波利西尼亞人在復活節島上定居，并建立了 “強大的、極具想象力和獨創性且不受外界影響的紀念雕像和建筑傳統”，比如“巨大的直立石像‘摩艾’，它創造了一個絕無僅有的景觀，吸引著全世界人”。
The high temperature of the forest fire accelerated the process through which the stone carvings will eventually turn into sand, Mayor Pedro Edmunds Paoa said. The damage is "irreparable and immeasurable as well," he added.
復活節島所屬的拉帕努伊市市長佩德羅?埃德蒙茲?帕爾（Pedro Edmunds Paoa）說，野火的高溫加速了石像風化的速度，最終可能使其變成沙子。他補充道，這次破壞是“不可修復，也無法估量的”。
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