On tree branches, ants began to march out of their holes and head to ground, careful to stay out of the way of the hungry guinea fowl.

树枝上，蚂蚁开始从洞里爬出来，小心避开饥饿的珍珠，面爬去。

When Europeans came to North America, they saw a bird that looked like the guinea fowl.

欧洲人到达北美时，看到了与珍珠相似的鸟。

There is an African bird called the guinea fowl.

非洲有一种鸟叫珍珠。

Portuguese traders brought the guinea fowl to Europe through North Africa.

葡萄牙商人通过北非将珍珠带到了欧洲。

The guinea-fowl likes to hide her nest in out-of-the-way places, and it was one of my greatest delights to hunt for the eggs in the long grass.

珍珠喜欢把巢藏匿在偏角落里，我最大的快乐之一就搜寻草窝里的蛋。

They were packed with images of wide farms, dry riverbeds, windswept veld, frolicking gemsbok and scratching guinea fowl.

这些诗篇的意象里宽阔的农场，干涸的河床，刮风的草场，嬉戏的大羚羊还有觅食的珍珠。

" Some Europeans saw an American turkey, thought that it was the guinea fowl, which at that time was called the 'turkey cock, ' and so gave it the same name."

“一些欧洲人看到一只美洲火，以珍珠，当时叫‘turkey cock’，所以给起了同样的名字。”

Home was good then, with supper of red wine and biscuits and quail from yesterday's hunt, or a roast guinea, and afterward, good talk by the blazing hearth-fire.

那时的家很不错， 晚餐有红酒、饼干和昨天打猎的鹌鹑， 或者烤珍珠， 然后在熊熊的炉火旁畅谈一番。

So they're right about where the guinea fowl comes  from, but they're not right about where the turkey comes from.

所以他们关于珍珠的来源对的，但关于火的来源就错了。

This is a feather from one of the most beautiful birds we have in Kenya, the crested guinea fowl.

这我们在肯尼亚拥有的最美丽的鸟类之一— —有冠珍珠的羽毛。

He's cooking guinea-fowl? - Don't even ask.

他在做珍珠? -别问了。

Many birds were domesticated for meat, eggs, and feathers: the chicken in China, various duck and goose species in parts of Eurasia, turkeys in Mesoamerica, guinea fowl in Africa, and the Muscovy duck in South America.

许多鸟类被驯化以获取肉、蛋和羽毛：中国的、欧亚大陆部分区的各种鸭和鹅、中美洲的火、非洲的珍珠和南美洲的番鸭。

So the story starts, not with the  bird that we call turkey, but with another bird: this flashy feathered fellow called the helmeted  guinea fowl.

所以这个故事开始， 并不从我们所说的火开始，而从另一种鸟开始：这种羽毛华丽的家伙叫做头盔珍珠。