而太地人在日本沿海捕鲸的历史可能已经有上千年了。
Taiji’s men have chased whales on Japan’s coast for perhaps millennia.
每年九月第一天，日本本州南部海岸一个叫做“太地”的小镇海湾，新一轮的捕鱼季开始：捕杀海豚的季节。
Every year on the first of September, at a cove in a small town called Taiji on the southeast coast of Japan's Honshu Island, a new fishing season begins: the dolphin season.
太地是日本最迷人最独特的景点之一，人们有类似于Tomi(字面意思是“守望者”)，Kaji(铁匠)，Amino(渔网)这样的姓氏。
It is one of Japan's more intriguing and distinctive spots. People have family names like Tomi (literally, lookout), Kaji (ironsmith) and Amino (net).
最后阻止太地捕猎的可能是日本的消费者。
In the end, it might be Japanese consumers who stop the Taiji hunt.
专家表示，这只海豚到太地町鲸鱼博物馆定居之前，能存活这么长时间已经很令人惊奇。 太地町鲸鱼博物馆位于日本和歌山县南部的东牟娄郡。
Experts said that it was remarkable that the animal had actually lived so long before ending up at the Taiji Whale Museum, in Higashimuro District, in southern Japan's Wakayama Prefecture.
专家表示，这只海豚到太地町鲸鱼博物馆定居之前，能存活这么长时间已经很令人惊奇。 太地町鲸鱼博物馆位于日本和歌山县南部的东牟娄郡。
Experts said that it was remarkable that the animal had actually lived so long before ending up at the Taiji Whale Museum, in Higashimuro District, in southern Japan's Wakayama Prefecture.
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