亨特和利波认为,建造摩艾岛的活动有助于维持岛上居民之间的和平。
Hunt and Lipo contend that moai-building was an activity that helped keep the peace between islanders.
他们并不总是优先考虑保护莫纳克亚脆弱的生态系统,或保护生态系统在岛上居民心中的的神圣地位。
They did not always prioritize the protection of Mauna Kea's fragile ecosystems or its holiness to the islands' inhabitants.
他们认为岛上的人口增长迅速,然后保持或多或少的稳定速度来增长,直到欧洲人的到来引进了岛上居民对其没有免疫力的致命疾病。
They think its population grew rapidly and then remained more or less stable until the arrival of the Europeans, who introduced deadly diseases to which islanders had no immunity.
They weren't very successful in growing it in huge amounts, but that short stapled cotton that eventually was the form of cotton that the cotton gin made into such a massive, marketable world product, is what made the cotton boom boom.
岛上的居民想大规模种植但没有成功,因而海岛棉,这种粗绒棉,逐渐成为了棉花产业的主流,轧棉机的发明成为了种可大量生产,且有利可图的产品,也因而棉花产业越来越兴盛
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