Different chiefs led 11 different Rapanui tribes.

不同的酋长领导着11个不同的拉帕努伊部落。

At first the Rapanui population grew slowly.

起初，拉帕努伊人的人口增长缓慢。

The Rapanui people are protective of their identity.

拉帕努伊人保护自己的身份。

Soon, the Rapanui's crops started to die from lack of rain.

很快，拉帕努伊人的庄稼开始因缺少雨水而枯死。

The Rapanui tribes began to fight each other for resources.

拉帕努伊部落开始相互争夺资源。

The Rapanui were not used to these diseases.

那里的人们不习惯这些疾病。

The Rapanui population reached its highest around the middle of the second millennium.

拉帕努伊人口在第二个千年中期左右达到最高水平。

There were between 10,000 and 20,000 Rapanui people at this time.

当时有1万到2万名拉帕努伊人。

And the Rapanui could no longer make wood boats to hunt big fish in deep water.

拉帕努伊人再也不能制作木船在深水中捕捉大鱼了。

The Rapanui community is mostly Catholic, but its religious activities are mixed with its ancestral beliefs.

拉帕努伊社区主要是天主教徒，但其宗教活动与祖先的信仰混合在一起。

The music that people sing during church events describe biblical stories translated to the Rapanui language.

人们在教堂活动中唱的音乐描述了翻译成拉帕努伊语的圣经故事。

They had many questions about the Rapanui people.

他们对拉帕努伊人有很多疑问。

And by the middle of the nineteenth century the Rapanui had almost disappeared completely!

到19世纪中叶，拉帕努伊人几乎完全消失了！

They have theories about what happened to the Rapanui people.

他们对拉帕努伊人的遭遇有自己的理论。

The scientists believe that the Rapanui culture rose and fell with the island's trees.

科学家认为，拉帕努伊文化是随着岛上树木的兴衰变化而变化的。

The Rapanui used every part of the island's trees.

拉帕努伊人用掉了岛上所有的树木。

And they found that the Rapanui used the island's trees for everything.

他们发现，拉帕努伊人用岛上的树做一切事情。

You see, the Rapanui used the same word for " tree" as for " riches" or " wealth."

你看，拉帕努伊人用“树”这个词来表示“财富”。

That is, unless we can learn from the Rapanui people.

也就是说，除非我们能从拉帕努伊人身上汲取教训（否则我们会有相似的经历）。

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。