Many scientists have studied Easter Island.

许多科学家对复活节岛进行了研究。

Here on Easter Island, the ancestors are watching.

复活节上的祖先们都在看着我们。

We're not one mile closer to Easter Island.

一点也没接近复活岛。

Easter Island is in the South Pacific.

复活节岛位于南太平洋。

Scientists say that a civil war began on Easter Island.

科学家表示，复活节岛上爆发了内战。

Our hope was to catch the Westerlies to Easter Island.

我们希望赶上西风到复活岛。

Mm. And after that, Heyerdahl went to Easter Island, didn't he?

在那之后，Heyerdahl又去了复活节岛，对吗？

The people of Easter Island, the Rapanui, created wonderful stone structures that still stand on Easter Island today.

复活节岛的居民，拉帕努伊人，创造了奇妙的石头建筑物，这些建筑物至今仍屹立在复活节岛上。

During this time, explorers from different nations also came to Easter Island.

在此期间，来自不同国家的探险家也来到了复活节岛。

Like this Easter Island sculpture that's about a thousand years old.

比如这个复活节岛的雕塑，大约有一千年的历史。

With all our technology, the statues of Easter Island still awe us.

即使我们有现代科技，复活节岛的雕像还是令人敬畏。

Today's Spotlight will look at the history of Easter Island.

今天的重点报道节目聚焦于复活节岛的历史。

No one can be completely sure what happened to the people on Easter Island.

没有人能完全确定复活节岛上的人们发生了什么。

In effect, the scientists believe that Easter Island may serve as a small model.

实际上，科学家认为复活节岛可以作为一个小模型。

In fact, Easter Island is known for these structures.

事实上，复活节岛以这些建筑物而闻名。

For many years, Easter Island was a perfect place to live.

多年来，复活节岛一直是一个完美的居住地。

But Easter Island's distance from other land did not keep people from populating it.

但复活节岛与其他陆地的距离并没有阻止人们在这里居住。

In the middle of the first millennium the first people arrived on Easter Island.

在第一个千年中期，第一批人来到复活节岛。

Researchers on Easter Island have found a previously undiscovered moai — one of the island's distinctive stone statues.

复活节岛的研究人员发现了一座新的摩艾石像，这是复活节岛的标志性雕像之一。

Plastic has found its way there, as Jeffrey Brown found on Easter Island in the South Pacific.

塑料无孔不入，杰弗里·布朗发现，就连南太平洋的复活节岛也有塑料问题。