And while some of us might fancy ourselves as adventurers, we have for the most part degenerated into cheap-flight-enabled tourists-vasco da Gama and Ibn Battuta would not be impressed.

而正当我们有些人幻想自己就是冒险家时，我们却很大程度地堕落为打着廉价机票的旅游者—凡斯科•达•伽马(Vasco da Gama)与伊本•白图泰(Ibn Battuta)不再被我们记起了。

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Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator, who discovered the route to India round the Cape of Good Hope between the year of 1497 and 1498.

达伽马是著名的葡萄牙航海家，在1497年至1498年间他发现了绕过好望角去印度的航线。

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Liverpool are poised for a January move for Vasco da Gama starlet Nilton.

据报道利物浦一月份希望引进达伽马的新星尼尔顿。

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The town's beaches have been a tidy earner since 1498, when Vasco da Gama was welcomed ashore.

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Marco Polo was on there, as was Sir Francis Drake, Vasco da Gama, Magellan, Lewis and Clark and Shackleton.

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When Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1498, he opened direct access for Europe to India and the Arabian Gulf.

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