qi miao dao yu 23

Song 奇妙岛屿 23
Artist 英语听力
Album BBC南太平洋

Lyrics

[00:00.24] Just 13 miles long and seven miles wide,
[00:03.95] Easter Island rises like a fortress from the waves, surrounded by thousands of miles of ocean in every direction.
[00:11.90] People first arrived here less than 1,000 years ago.
[00:15.64] Most of what we know about their civilisation can only be pieced together from the relics that remain.
[00:22.10] It is a strange and desolate place.
[00:25.38] The most striking features in this bleak and windswept landscape are the hundreds of giant stone statues, known as moai,
[00:34.52] thought to be carved in the likeness of chiefs or ancestors.
[00:38.53] It's difficult to believe that an advanced culture capable of carving and erecting these monoliths grew up in such a barren landscape.
[00:47.40] The truth is, it didn't.
[00:49.50] When those first colonisers discovered Easter Island, this was a paradise.
[00:55.18] These empty cliffs were once home to the largest seabird colonies in the South Pacific.
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