纪录片《南太平洋》 第62期 四海为家（30）

（单词翻译）

With few scientific leads, they would have to rely on local knowledge.

由于缺乏专业指导，他们不得不依靠当地的知识

The crocodile tales began, interpreted by Wade¹, a fluent pidgin-speaker.

鳄鱼故事开始了，由维德口译，他可以流利地讲多种语言

Oh, yeah? Sacred crocodile. And he's got no tail? No, no tail.

噢，是么？神圣的鳄鱼。它没有尾巴？没有尾巴

Following the tip-off of the four-metre tail-less crocodile,

据说有条四米长的无尾鳄鱼

they decided² to track him down that night, when these reptiles³ are most active.

他们决定晚上去追踪它，爬行类动物在那时最活跃

To minimise disturbance⁴, they scanned the mangroves with infrared⁵ light, invisible to crocodiles.

为将打扰降至最低，他们用鳄鱼无法看见的红外线光源扫视红树林

Well, that's remarkable⁶. I would have guaranteed that we were onto something here,

真了不起。我敢保证水下有东西

but we haven't seen one crocodile.

但我们一条鳄鱼也没看到

Aside from a mysterious splash, the only confirmed sightings were juveniles⁷.

除了有一次神秘的飞溅声，只见到一条小鳄鱼

Where were the adults?

成年鳄在哪里?

Over the next two nights, the tail-less croc continued to elude⁸ them.

随后的两个晚上，无尾鳄始终躲着他们

It was time to move on.

该离开这里了

70 miles to the east, they reached the island of Liapari, in the central Solomons.

他们到达110公里以东，所罗门群岛中部的里阿帕里岛。