Although many were lost at sea, some Lapita DID reach new islands, thanks to their extraordinary navigation skills.

虽然有许多人丧身大海，有些拉匹达人还是到达了新岛，这要归功于他们卓越的航海技能。

The Lapita explored and colonised many Pacific islands over several centuries.

几个世纪以来，拉皮塔人探索并殖民了许多太平洋岛屿。

The Lapita's thrust into the Pacific was eastward, against the prevailing trade winds, Irwin notes.

Irwin 指出，Lapita 逆着盛行的信风向东推进到太平洋。

38.The Lapita learnt to predict the duration of El Ninos.

38.拉皮塔人学会了预测厄尔尼诺现象的持续时间。

El Nino, the same climate disruption that affects the Pacific today, may have helped scatter the Lapita, Anderson suggests.

安德森认为，厄尔尼诺现象，即今天影响太平洋的气候破坏，可能有助于驱散拉皮塔河。

It is the oldest cemetery ever found in the Pacific islands, and it harbors the remains of an ancient people archaeologists call the Lapita.

它是太平洋岛屿上发现的最古老的墓地，里面埋藏着被考古学家称为拉皮塔人的古人遗骸。

Taking to their sailing boats once more, descendants of the Lapita left the central Pacific and set off again in search of new lands..... into the great unknown.

拉匹达的后裔又驾驭他们的帆船，再次离开中太平洋，动身寻找新的土地，进入真正广阔的未知世界。

Other items included a Lapita burial urn with modeled birds arranged on the rim as though peering down at the human remains sealed inside.

其他物品包括一个拉皮塔 (Lapita) 骨灰盒，其边缘排列着鸟类模型，仿佛在俯视密封在里面的人类遗骸。

He points out that climate data obtained from slow-growing corals around the Pacific indicate a series of unusually frequent El Ninos around the time of the Lapita expansion.

他指出，从太平洋周围生长缓慢的珊瑚中获得的气候数据表明，在拉皮塔扩张期间出现了一系列异常频繁的厄尔尼诺现象。

All this presupposes one essential detail, says Atholl Anderson, professor of prehistory at the Australian National University: the Lapita had mastered the advanced art of sailing against the wind.

澳大利亚国立大学史前史学教授阿瑟尔·安德森 (Atholl Anderson) 说，所有这一切都以一个基本细节为前提：拉皮塔人掌握了逆风航行的先进艺术。

Nor do the oral histories and traditions of later Polynesians offer any insights, for they turn into myths long before they reach as far back in time as the Lapita.

后世波利尼西亚人的口述历史和传统也没有提供任何见解，因为它们在追溯到拉皮塔人之前很久就变成了神话。