1.In the Malagasy language, they call these creatures " Daebitana" .

人们在马拉加西语里叫它们“达毕塔纳”。

2.But right about then, we heard back from another Malagasy expert we'd emailed.

但就在那时，我们收到了另一位马达加斯加专家的回复。

3.Aerial and ground surveys are underway in Madagascar to map the locations of the Malagasy migratory locust swarms.

马达加斯加目前正在进和地面调查，以对这里迁移的蝗虫制作地图。

4.Most likely, then, the first Malagasy were accidental castaways, news of whose adventure never made it back home.

那么，首批马达加斯加人也很可能是船只失事而意外漂流到该岛的，而这批人后来也没办法回到家乡。

5.The Malagasy have long captured them as a remedy for whooping cough or simply to put them on the plate.

马拉加西人长期以来捕捉它们来治疗百日咳或干脆就当食物。

6.But do remember that the adjective for Madagascar has the same sound only it is spelled with the letter -y, Malagasy.

但请记住，Madagascar（马达加斯加）的形容词有相同的发音，当它的后缀为-y的时候，即Malagasy。

7.And third, genetic evidence has linked the modern Malagasy with people living in eastern Indonesia as well as farther off in Melanesia and Oceania.

再次，基据已明现代的马达加斯加人与东印尼人以及相距更遥远的美拉尼西亚人和生活在大洋洲的人都是有联系的。

8.I think in the tree trunk is an outstanding trumpet player, a star of Malagasy entomology prized by collectors the world over.

我感觉这个树干里就有出色的小号手，马拉加西昆虫界的明星，受到全世界收集者的青睐。

9.First, it has been recognised for centuries that the Malagasy language, though distinct, borrows a lot of words from Javanese, Malay and the tongues of Borneo and Sulawesi.

首先，存在了几个世纪的一种看法认为，该岛使用的马尔加什语，虽然独特，但很多的词汇是来自爪哇语、马来语和一部分口语来自婆罗洲及苏拉威西岛当地方言。

10.He drew this conclusion, just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, by sampling the DNA of 266 Malagasy people and comparing it with existing samples from 2,745 Indonesians.

Cox博士最近在术期刊《皇家会进展》（Proceedings of the Royal Society ）发表的文章对266名马达加斯加人进DNA抽样，同现有的2745名印尼人的DNA样品进了比对，得出了以上结论。

11.That insight led to collaboration with Patricia Wright, a primatologist at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, who helped encourage the Malagasy government to found Ranomafana, and who has been working there for decades.

这种洞察力促成了与纽约州立大石溪分校灵长类动物家帕特里夏·赖特的合作，后者帮助鼓励马达加斯加政府成立了拉诺马法纳，并在那里工作了数十年。

12.Dr Cox and his colleagues were therefore able to make a statistical comparison of Indonesian and Malagasy mitochondrial genomes knowing that any changes which had occurred since they separated would be the result of rare mutations.

Cox博士和他的同事们此能进印尼人和马达加斯加人线粒体基组的数据比对，从而推断出本相同的线粒体DNA天各一方后发生的任何遗传变化都是源于一些罕见的基突变。