The islanders endured centuries of exploitation.

岛民们忍受了几个世纪的剥削。

The islanders use a system of barter instead of money.

岛上的居民实行的是以物易物，而不是用货币。

These figures may look good on paper but are cold comfort to the islanders themselves.

这些数字理论上看来可能不错，但对岛民们却起不到安慰的作用。

Islanders have campaigned for the abolition of one of the three tiers of municipal power on the island.

岛民们已经发起了运动，要废除该岛3级市政权力中的1级。

Islanders make the best they can of what they have.

岛民将他们所拥有的东西利用到极致。

The rate of liver cancers among those islanders increased sharply.

这些岛民的肝癌发病率急剧上升。

When the wood was gone and civil war began, the islanders began toppling the moai.

当森林消失，内战开始，岛上的居民开始推倒摩艾石像。

The key to the Pacific islanders' success was probably their location near the equator.

太平洋岛民成功的关键可能是他们靠近赤道的位置。

When the islanders cleared the forests for firewood and farming, the forests didn't grow back.

当岛民把森林砍伐成木柴和农田时，森林没有再长回来。

Hunt and Lipo contend that moai-building was an activity that helped keep the peace between islanders.

亨特和利波认为，建造摩艾岛的活动有助于维持岛上居民之间的和平。

"We were so amazed that they could stay underwater much longer than us local islanders," Dr. Jubilado said.

“它们能比我们这些当地岛民在水下待的时间长得多，这让我们感到非常惊讶。”朱拉多博士说。

The islanders' local language is still classed by UNESCO as critically endangered because only 1,000 people speak it.

岛民的本土语言仍然被联合国教科文组织列为极度濒危语言，因为只有1000人说这种语言。

Many older theories implicitly deprecated the navigational abilities and overall cultural creativity of the Pacific islanders.

许多较早的理论含蓄地贬低了太平洋岛民的航海能力和综合文化的创造力。

The wide diversity of Asian Americans was overlooked; there was very little mention of South Asians or Pacific Islanders, for example.

亚裔美国人的多样性被忽视了；比如，很少有人会提到南亚裔或太平洋岛民这种说法。

Islanders from all over the Pacific learned to use the stars for navigation, and they passed this knowledge down from generation to generation.

来自太平洋各地的岛民学会了用星星来导航，并且他们将这一知识代代相传。

DNA teased from these human remains may help answer one of the most puzzling questions in Pacific anthropology: did all Pacific islanders spring from one source or many?

从这些人类遗骸中提取的 DNA 可能有助于回答太平洋人类学中最令人困惑的问题之一：所有太平洋岛民是来自一个源头，还是不同源头呢？

The islanders exhibit a constant happiness with life.

这些岛民表现出一种对生活的持久的幸福感。

Pacific Islanders realize the problem.

太平洋岛原住民意识到了这个问题。

Not if the islanders have anything to do about it.

除非岛上的居民对此有所行动。

The Pacific Islanders have nothing to do about the climate change.

太平洋岛民对气候变化无能为力。

Because great numbers of people go there, the islanders have built elaborate resorts, developed harbors and airfields, improved the beaches and have expanded sea and air routes.

由于很多人去那里，岛民们建造了精心设计的度假村，开发了港口和机场，改善了海滩，并扩展了海路和空路航线。

They think its population grew rapidly and then remained more or less stable until the arrival of the Europeans, who introduced deadly diseases to which islanders had no immunity.

他们认为岛上的人口增长迅速，然后保持或多或少的稳定速度来增长，直到欧洲人的到来引进了岛上居民对其没有免疫力的致命疾病。

The islanders fled and Tenedos became deserted once more.

岛民逃走了，特尼多斯岛再次被遗弃。

That used to be the staple crop of the islanders.

那以前是岛民的主要作物。

Like us, Sicilians are islanders - tough and maritime.

同我们一样，顽强的西西里人也是岛民——沿海而居。

Islanders are now debating what to call the new piece of land.

岛民正在争论该给新出现的这片小岛起个什么名字。

Islanders buried the man in the island's Old European Cemetery.

岛民把它埋在过去欧洲人的公墓。

The reason for the carving remains as unknown as the islanders.

雕刻的原因就如同岛上的人一样不为人所知。

Despite their differences, the islanders coexist peacefully.

尽管他们有差异，岛上居民还是和平共处。

The Cook Islanders are Maoris, a branch of the Polynesian race.

库克岛人是毛利人(Maoris)和波利尼西亚血统的分支。