Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from.The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.

其中一部分是约在2，000年前从印度尼西亚迁来的。

And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases,

再者，随着精力的衰退，老年人的疲惫感会增长，

to discover whether they are mentally ill more often than other people are.

看一看他们是否比其他人更易患精神病。

And anyone who gave more than a passing thought to the bottom confines of the oceans probably assumed that the sea bed was flat.

凡是稍稍想过大海海底的人大概都会认为海底是平坦的。

Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?

某位哲学家曾拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察天空；到了19世纪40年代，有人硬把罗斯勋爵高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星云说成是磨镜工留下的磨痕。难道反对伽利略的哲学家比诋毁罗斯勋爵造谣者应受到更大的谴责吗？

But animals of this age do not easily become subservient to man,

但这个年龄的象不易驯服，