In these programmes, I'm travelling back in time and across the globe, to see how we humans, over two million years, have shaped our world, and been shaped by it.

在这些节目里，我将穿梭时空，跨越世界，去看看我们人类在这两百万年时光中，是如何改变世界，又是如何被世界改变着。

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For perhaps the first time in human history insecurity disappeared from young people's psyches across a substantial part of the globe.

这或许是人类历史上，在地球上很大一部分地区中，年青人的心理上第一次没有不安全感。

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Around the world in 80 days? Not quite. But when you're treading the globe on foot, it's understandable the feat might take more time.

要花80天环游世界？不太可能吧。但是当你要徒步踏遍全球时，这是可以理解的，而且需要花更多的时间。

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In the late 16th century Dutchmen Cornelius and Frederik Houtman tried to swipe the key to Portugal's trade monopoly in the East Indies--detailed maps of that part of the globe--and landed in jail for a brief time.

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In around 20 years, the Portuguese will be celebrating a similar quincentenary: that of the expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan which in 1519-22 circumnavigated the globe for the first time.

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