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Pentecost men have been leaping head first from wooden scaffolds

五旬节岛的男人系着能防止他们坠落的藤索

with only forest vines to break their fall

从木制脚手架上头向前跳下

A tradition that inspired modern bungee jumping.

一个让现代蹦极跳受到启发的风俗

The jumps may look like acts of madness

这种跳看起来像疯狂行为

But the festival's origins have a serious side.

但作为节庆起源有着庄重的方面

They celebrate the annual harvest of their staple crop.

他们庆祝每年的主要作物的丰获

And with up to nine cyclones pounding the South Pacific a year

由于每年多达9个龙卷风重击南太平洋

A successful harvest is worth celebrating.

成功的丰获是值得庆祝的

The close calls with Mother Earth are not miscalculations.

与地球母亲的密切召唤是不会误算的

The diver's hair is actually meant to brush the ground

跳跃者的头发像刷子样拂过地面

in a symbolic act of fertilisation.

象征着施肥

And it's believed the closer the jumper gets to the ground

他们相信跳跃者离地面越近

The taller the crops will grow the next year.

来年的收成就越好

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