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Easter Island
http://www.sina.com.cn 2002/11/04 13:45  空中美语

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  Maude and Simon have been traveling around Chile for a month.

  S:Where to next? We could hit Argentina. ... Or maybe we can head to Easter Island!

  M:Perfect! I've always wanted to see firsthand those weird monoliths with the gigantic heads. People say they were put there by aliens.

  S:Oh, get a grip! Those heads are called "moai" and were definitely the work of humans.

  M:OK, smartie--since you seem to know so much--who did build them?

  S:Most archaeologists believe they were built by the Polynesians who discovered Easter Island in 400 A.D.--I've been doing my homework!

  M:Apparently. So, you know who built them, but do you know why?

  S:No. Nobody does. But they may have been used as a conduit for communicating with the gods.

  M:"May have"? Sounds like the moai are quite the enigma. Did the early Easter Islanders keep no records?

  S:Nope. And it's kind of strange, considering they were the only people in Oceania who actually had a written language.

  M:That is mysterious! Maybe the moai were built by a forgotten civilization and Easter Island is part of a lost continent!

  S:Like Atlantis? Yeah, right. What's more mysterious to me is how you can actually believe in that stuff!

谁建造了巨石群?失落的大陆复活节岛

  莫德和西蒙已在智利旅行了一个月。

  西蒙:接下来要去哪儿呢?我们可以造访阿根廷……或许我们可以前往复活节岛!

  莫德:太好了!我一直很想亲眼目睹那些怪异的大头巨石群。有人说那是外星人放在那儿的。

  西蒙:噢,克制点!那些头叫做“毛埃”,而且绝对是人类的杰作。

  莫德:好吧,聪明的家伙──既然你这么博学多闻──那究竟是谁建造了巨石群?

  西蒙:多数考古学家都相信,这是在公元400年发现复活节岛的玻利尼西亚人建造的──我一直在做作业!

  莫德:看得出来。所以你知道是谁建造了巨石群,可是你知道为什么吗?

  西蒙:不知道。没有人知道。但巨石群可能曾经被用作与神沟通的渠道。

  莫德:“可能曾经”?听起来毛埃真是个谜。难道早期的复活节岛民都没有留下任何记载吗?

  西蒙:没有。说来有点奇怪,他们可是大洋洲惟一确实拥有书面文字的民族。

  莫德:真不可思议!说不定毛埃是由一个被遗忘的文明社会建造的,而复活节岛则是一块失落的大陆的一部分!

  西蒙:就像亚特兰蒂斯?喔,对。对我来说,更加不可思议的是,你怎么能真的相信那种事!




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Annotation

1.monolith

n. 一块巨石,巨石制成的碑、柱等

2. gigantic

adj. 庞大的

3. conduit

n. 管道

4. enigma

n. 谜


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