BBC | 《南太平洋》- 漂流者 09

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millions of years ago

数百万年以前

these powerful reptiles had already begun their push eastwards

这些强大的动物已经开始向东迁徙

for any animal castaway

对于任何动物漂流者来说

first hurdle would have been the 60-mile stretch of water

第一个阻碍就是绵延60英里的海域

that separetes New Guinea from the next group of island-theSolomons

这片海域将新几内亚与下一个群岛——所罗门群岛分隔开

instead of one dominating island,like New Guinea

不像新几内亚是个主岛

the Solomon are made up of almost a thousand smaller jewels

所罗门群岛是由近千个小型岛屿组成的

scattered along a 900-miles chain.

散落在900英里的连线上

all these islands erupted out of the sea and were ripe for colonisation

所有的这些岛屿都是海中的火山喷发形成的，开拓的时机到了。

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