piao liu zhe 19

Song 漂流者 19
Artist 英语听力
Album BBC南太平洋

Lyrics

[00:00.94] They're generated by underwater landslides and earthquakes
[00:04.35] Known as tsunamis,
[00:05.94] they can flatten coastlines
[00:09.20] Yet these destructive forces may have also brought life to some islands
[00:15.24] As tsunamis strike the coast,
[00:17.28] rafts of vegetation could be cast adrift
[00:20.28] Perhaps animals were caught up in those rafts too
[00:24.14] Could this have been the answer to how these animals made it to Fiji?
[00:28.17] After all, they are the hardest of their kind and could have survived long sea journeys
[00:33.18] Fiji's first animals washed up tens of millions of years ago
[00:37.48] But humans were slow off the block
[00:40.32] They only arrived here three and a half thousand years ago
[00:43.43] Their history remains thin on the ground
[00:46.51] The ruins of Nan Madol are one of only two ancient cities ever found in the Pacific
[00:52.29] With archaeological evidence so scarce,
[00:55.15] the origins of the first people in the central Pacific were hotly debated
[00:59.82] Were they Papuans From New Guinea,
[01:02.27] native Indians from the Americas,
[01:04.49] or another race of people from Asia