1·Dugout canoes a popular means of transport.
通常的交通工具是独木舟。
2·The dugout canoes drift silently along the waters, past mud-banks and screeching birds.
独木舟悄无声息地在水面上划过，经过泥土的河岸，听见鸟儿在鸣叫。
3·It was on August 24 that we had our heart-stopping encounter with the murderous Indians in their dugout canoes.
8月24日，我们惊心动魄地遭遇了独木舟上凶残的印第安人。
4·We traveled one of these in dugout canoes, canoes paddled with machete-hewn OARS, or poled in the shallows with bamboo.
我们荡舟其上，划着用大砍刀砍削而成的木桨，在浅水处则以竹当篙。
5·Two years later, I was in Hawaii and learned how the Polynesian people populated the Pacific Islands in dugout canoes 2, 000 years ago.
两年后，我跑到了夏威夷。在那里我学到了2000年前波利尼西亚人是怎样靠独木舟来到这个太平洋小岛定居的。
6·Two years later, I was in Hawaii and learned how the Polynesian people populated the Pacific Islands in dugout canoes 2,000 years ago.
在那里我学到了2000年前波利尼西亚人是怎样靠独木舟来到这个太平洋小岛定居的。
7·As I turned, I saw five dugout canoes full of indigenous Indians, their faces highlighted by lines of bright red paint, coming towards us fast.
转身时我看到五艘独木舟满载着土著印第安人，他们的脸上有大红颜料绘出的线条，他们正朝我们飞快驶来。
8·From Senegal in the region’s west, thousands of Africans brave the seas in dugout canoes for a chance to enter Europe illegally. The lucky ones wash up on Spanish shores but many others drown.
从西非最西端的塞内加尔（Senegal）开始，成千上万的非洲亡命之徒搭乘独木舟破浪出海，试图一赌偷渡欧洲的运气；运气好的话，可以被海浪冲刷上西班牙的海岸，但很多其他人都运气不好地葬身大海。