当我上了船,那些商人和水手都围着我听我谈我如何会到这个荒芜的岛来,那些地方老航海家都是知道着食人肉的大人和大蛇。
When Icame on board, the merchants and seamen flocked about me to hear how Icame into that deserted island, in a region where cannibal giants and serpents were known by the oldest sailors to abound.
由于复活节岛赖以生存的树木和土壤消失殆尽,岛上的人口大幅减少,幸存者转而以食人肉为生。
As the trees and soils on which the islanders depended disappeared, the population crashed and the survivors turned to cannibalism.
其后的探险者发现,有证据表明弗兰克林的队员甚至不得不靠食人肉来求存活,但由于饥馑、疾病的双重围困,加之暴露于严寒之下,最终无一生还。
Later explorers found evidence that Franklin's men had resorted to cannibalism before they finally died of hunger, disease and exposure.
《理发师陶德》[1979]——桑德海姆最歌剧化的作品[也是他唯一一部可以在歌剧院找到立足之地的作品]——再次采用了一个不同寻常的主题:复仇谋杀和食人肉。
Sweeney Todd (1979), Sondheim's most operatic score (and his only show to find a definite foothold in opera houses), once again explores an unlikely topic, this time murderous revenge and cannibalism.
《理发师陶德》[1979]——桑德海姆最歌剧化的作品[也是他唯一一部可以在歌剧院找到立足之地的作品]——再次采用了一个不同寻常的主题:复仇谋杀和食人肉。
Sweeney Todd (1979), Sondheim's most operatic score (and his only show to find a definite foothold in opera houses), once again explores an unlikely topic, this time murderous revenge and cannibalism.
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