英語(yǔ)暢談世界文化lesson5 土著居民 Aborigines

S1:Student 1       S2:Student2

S1: I'm writing a paper on early civilisations, I've decided to focus on the Australian aborignies.
S2: Sounds good. I'd love to do some extra reading on this topic.
S1: I'm not sure exactly what to write.
S2: Let's begin at the beginning. Australia may well be the home of the world's first people. Stone tools discovered ib 1971 show that humans lived in Australia at least twelve thousand years before they appared in Europe.
S1: I read that so far three early sites have been discovered in Australia, the Penrith one being dated about forty-seven thousand years old, a Western Australian site forty thousand years old and another in Lake Mungo, New South Wales, thirty-five thousand years old.
S2: That means there have been in excess of 1,850 generations of aboriginals!!
S1: I never thought of it that way. Let's look at their culture, too. More than 30,000 years ago the population of the world was small, and people lived in family groups, hunting, fishing and food gathering.
S2: At that time there were no cultivated crops, animals were not herded for food and metalworking was yet to be discovered.
S1: Life must have been very different back then. At that time, known as the last great Ice Age, Australia was joined to New Guinea.
S2: So, they must have journeyed across the ice. As the ice flows of the Ice Age began to melt, the sea level rose, isolating Austalia.
S1: They were stuck there, with no way to go back home. So, they made Australia their new home.
S2: The first Aboriginals found an Australia with a better environment than today. Large animals, now extinct, provided more meat than the animals with which we are familiar.
S1: Some parts of the continent were richer in vegetable foods, but the land contained no cultivated crops, or animals that could be domesticated, such as cattle and sheep.
S2: Did you know they even have their own flag? It's divided horizontally into two equal halves of black ( top ) and red ( bottom ), with a yellow circle in the centre.
S1: Yes, it's flown or displayed permanently at aboriginal centers throughout Australia.

aborigines 土著居民   

Sound good. 聽起來不錯(cuò)。

Let's begin at the beginning. 讓我們從頭開始吧。

They were stuck there. 他們被困在那里。