||1: As a Micronesian he did not know the waters or the winds round Tahiti, far south-east. But he had an image of Tahiti in his head. He knew that if he aimed for that image, he would not get lost. ||2: And he never did. More than 2,000 miles out, a flock of small white terns skimmed past the Hokule’a heading for the still invisible Mataiva Atoll, next to Tahiti. Mau knew then that the voyage was almost over.

||1: Mau Piailug生长在西太平洋密克罗尼西亚，并不知道南太平洋塔希提岛的风是什么样子的，可是他在脑子里有个塔希提的映像，他知道只要朝着那个映像走，就不会迷路。 ||2:航行了两千多海里了，他看到一群白色的小燕鸥飞快地飞过哈古尔，他知道它们是要飞向塔希提边上的马太瓦环礁，以此判断出他们快到达目的地了。

||1: Much of what he knew, of course, was secret. The secrecy was serious: when he spoke of spirits, his smiling face became deadly sober and even scared. ||2: To a very few students, he passed on “The Talk of the Sea” and “The Talk of the Light”. By doing so, he broke a rule that Micronesian knowledge should remain in those islands only. ||3: It seemed to him, though, that Polynesians and Micronesians were one people, united by the vast ocean which he, and they, had crisscrossed for millennia in their tiny boats.

||1:当然这些东西有很多是严肃的秘密，当他说到灵魂的时候，微笑的脸顿时冷静下来，甚至显得很神圣。||2:他只教很少的学生“和大海交谈”，“和光线交流”，并且在教学生这些秘密的时候，他打破了密克罗尼西亚知识不外传的规矩。||3:因为在他看来，玻利尼西亚人和密克罗尼西亚人是一家人，联结着他们是的他们千百年来驾小舟穿行过无数次的广阔海洋。

The islands lie roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia in the Micronesian region of the South Pacific.

该岛大致在南太平洋密克罗尼西亚地区的夏威夷和澳大利亚之间。

The Micronesian island of Guam has the highest divorce rate in the world, and Guatemala has the lowest.

关岛的密克罗尼西亚岛是世界上离婚率最高的地方，危地马拉是最低的。

The Guam Micronesian kingfisher is thought to be extinct in the wild following the introduction of the brown tree snake.

据认为，随着棕树蛇的引进，关岛密罗尼西亚翠鸟在野外灭绝。

micronesian larva

n.寄生等足类的一种幼体