我们的故事

Columbus records their first encounter:

哥伦布记录了与他们的初次相遇

"The people kept calling to us and giving thanks to God,"

这些人一直呼唤我们 一直感谢上帝

"As if we had come from Heaven."

好像我们是从天堂而来"

"I presented them with some red caps and beads."

我给了他们一些红色的帽子和珠串

"They were much delighted "And became wonderfully attached to us."

他们非常高兴 开始和我们非常亲近"

Living in a different eco-system for thousands of years,

在一个截然不同的生态环境下生活了数千年

The people of the Americas have no immunity

美洲的印第安人对于一个致命的威胁

to a deadly threat:Disease.

完全没有免疫力 那就是疾病

Europeans were swimming in this bacterial and viral soup,

欧洲人生活在充满细菌和病毒的环境中

that was utterly unlike anything over there.

而在美洲 环境却截然不同

First contact with an invisible killer

他们首次接触到这种隐性的杀手

That will one day change the destiny of the new world.

它终有一日会改变新世界的命运

But columbus is on a search for treasure.

但哥伦布是为了探寻宝藏

"I kept my eyes open and tried to find If there was any gold.

我睁大眼睛四下寻找 黄金的踪迹

"Then I saw some of them had a little piece

然后我发现他们的鼻子上

"Hanging from a hole in their nose.

戴着金子做的鼻环

"I gathered that by going further, I'd find a king

我收集金子并进一步寻找 我找到了一位国王

"Who possessed in great quantities of gold."

他拥有大量的黄金"

重点讲解

1、encounter

遇到，遭遇（问题、困难）

Every day of our lives we encounter stresses of one kind or another.

我们在每天的生活中会面临这样或那样的压力。

Environmental problems they found in Poland were among the worst they encountered.

他们在波兰发现的环境问题是他们遇到过的最严重的。

偶遇;邂逅

Did you encounter anyone in the building?

你在大楼里遇到谁了么？

Renata wrote him that she had encountered her long-estranged father.

雷娜塔写信告诉他说她碰到了分离多年的父亲。

偶遇;邂逅;(重要的)相逢

The author tells of a remarkable encounter with a group of South Vietnamese soldiers.

作者讲述了和一群南越士兵的奇遇。

2、present

现在的；目前的

He has brought much of the present crisis on himself.

目前的大部分危机都是他自己引起的。

the government's present economic difficulties.

政府当前的经济难题

现在；目前；现状

his struggle to reconcile the past with the present.

他为协调过去和现在所付出的努力。

continuing right up to the present.

一直持续到现在