复活节岛:1979年昆仑山事件

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　　Easter Island was discovered on Easter Day 1722 by the Dutch. Easter Island was named Easter Island, because it was discovered on Easter. Today it is a part of Chile and it is inhabited1 by about a thousand people. Easter Island is located 2,350 miles west of Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean. Easter Island is mainly made up of three volcanoes（火山）(the highest reaching 538 m). The craters（火山口），are separated by low plains. The volcanoes are extinct2. The climate there is subtropical （亚热带的）.The average annual temperature is 22℃. The precipitation（降水量）level is 1,015 mm a year.
　　 The island is also a home to many rock carvings, as well as traditional wood carvings, string figures（翻线戏）, dance and music. Because of its temperature, Easter Island only has a few species of plants and animals. They have no mammals3, two types of small lizards（蜥蜴） and only a few species of insects. There are very few fish in the water surrounding Easter Island. Settlements（居民点） on the island were made up of huts （简陋的小屋） and crops were grown in the backyards.
　　 Scattered on Easter Island are approximately 600 huge statues（雕像） carved by the early people. Polynesian people used to light fires and worship4 in front of these statues. Nobody knows who was the model for those sculptures because the indigenous5 inhabitants look totally different and still the artists that created the monuments (不朽的作品) needed a model. You can see there huge statues with long noses, low forehead and pursing6 mouth. Easter Island has been the subject of curiosity and speculation(猜测). How and why did its inhabitants carve and transport the massive statues which surround the island？ What remains ( 遗迹，遗风 ) of this culture today, and what lessons can we learn from their legacy(遗产)?
　　 There has been much controversy (争议) and confusion concerning the origins of the Easter Island statues. Some have suggested that Easter Island is a remnant (残留部分) of a lost continent, or the result of an extra-terrestrial(外星人的) influence, but nobody knows for sure how the statues got there.
　　
　　注释：
　　 1．inhabit vt. 居住于
　　 2．extinct adj. (火等)熄灭了的
　　 3．mammal n．哺乳动物
　　 4．worship vi. 敬神，拜神
　　 5．indigenous adj．当地的
　　 6．purse vi．噘起（嘴唇）
　　
　　复活节岛是由荷兰人于1722年的复活节发现的。该岛之所以起名为复活节岛，是因为它在复活节那天被发现。如今它是智利的一部分，岛上居住着大约1000名居民。复活节岛位于智利西边2350英里处，地处南太平洋。复活节岛主要由3座火山构成(最高的达538米)。火山口被地势低的平原所分隔，火山已成为死火山。该地气候为亚热带，年平均气温为22摄氏度，年降水量为1015毫米。
　　该岛也是许多石雕、传统木雕、翻线戏以及舞蹈和音乐的故乡。因其气温方面的原因，复活节岛仅有少数几种动、植物。这里没有哺乳动物，只有两种小型蜥蜴和少数几种昆虫。在环绕复活节岛的海水中，鱼类很少。岛上的居民区由简陋的小屋组成，后院生长着庄稼。
　　散布于复活节岛上的是由早期人类雕刻的大约600座巨型雕像。波利尼西亚人过去常常在这些塑像前点火膜拜。当地居民看起来与这些雕像完全不同，而艺术家们仍然需要一个模特来创作这些不朽作品，所以无人知晓这些塑像的模特是谁。你可以在那里看到有着长鼻子、低前额和翘嘴巴的巨型塑像。复活节岛引起了人们的好奇和猜测：岛上的居民为何雕刻这些巨型塑像?他们又是怎样运送这些如今环绕在岛上的塑像的?这种文化遗存至今的是什么?我们从这一遗产中可以学习到什么?
　　关于复活节岛塑像的来历众说纷纭。有些人认为复活节岛是一块消失的大陆的遗留部分，或是外星人的作品，但是没有人确切知道塑像是如何到达那里的。

复活节岛:1979年昆仑山事件

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