In the spring we left Africa and sailed round the island of Madagascar into the Indian Ocean.

This gremlin-like creature is an Aye-Aye& a type of lemur normally found only in Madagascar.

这种小鬼似的动物叫指猴，它是狐猴的一种，生活在马达加斯加岛。

A large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks.

非洲和马达加斯加岛的一种大型棕榈，长的羽状复叶，叶茎含有能带来巨大经济利益的纤维。

Gifford and his colleagues In the study found that the island of Madagascar lemurs Chinchilla.

吉福德和他的同事们研究在马达加斯加岛发现的灰鼠狐猴。

Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog.

马达加斯加岛食虫并体表经常带刺的小哺乳动物；与刺猬形似。

The enthusiasm that many Malagasy seem to have for spreading their new and fecund friends around the country, to provide an additional" crop", may thus backfire.

马达加斯加人想让他们新的、繁殖力强的朋友撒遍全国，提供一种附加的“作物”的热情可能产生适得其反的效果。

Other notable Welsh philologists were missionary David Jones who first put the Malagasy language of Madagascar into writing;

另外一些著名的威尔士语言学家包括传教士大卫琼斯，以文字书写马达加斯加语的第一人；

Zimmerman studied Malagasy populations on Madagascar.

齐默曼研究了马达加斯加上土地上的马达加斯加人。

One of the rarest land tortoises in the world, this beautiful animal has been diminished by the fires which Malagasy farmers use to promote the growth of grasses that their cattle like to eat.

世上罕有的陆地龟，马达加斯加人为了让他们饲养的家畜所吃的草更加繁盛而放火烧林，使得这种漂亮的动物逐渐减少。

The vanilla is a strategic product for Malagasy economy.

香草是马达加斯加人的一种战略经济作物。

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因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。

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，基因学证据已证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。

Madagascar will receive another$ 50 million in the next two years from the FTI.

在今后两年内，马达加斯加还将从FTI得到5000万美元。

Epiphytic ferns of Madagascar to tropical Asia and New Guinea.

产于马达加斯加岛至热带亚洲和新几内亚的附生蕨类植物。

The wildlife documentary described the rare species found in madagascar.

这部野生动物纪录片描绘了在马达加斯加发现的稀有种类。

Having confirmed that Malagasy and Indonesian DNA separated about 1200 years ago, which is statistically close to the date archaeologists suggest Madagascar was colonised, the team then asked their data how many women, drawn at random from the Malay Archipelago of that period,

由于已确定马达加斯加人和印尼人的DNA是在约1200年前分开的——这与考古学家们统计得出的马达加斯加成为殖民地的时间相近，接着Cox博士带领的小组就开始对随机抽取的那一时期的数据进行女性人数的解析，

Chinese web-surfer could then visit an English newspaper website and read all the content in excellent Mandarin, before moving on to read blog entries written in Malagasy or Twitter posts in Galician.

这样，中国的网民就可以访问英文报纸的网页，以及用他们那非凡的汉语来阅读其上的内容，甚至进一步阅读用Malagasy马达加斯加语写的博客，或用Galician加利西亚语写Twitte推特。

Madagascar 3, distributed by Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures, earned an additional$ 75.5 million in 28 foreign countries, including China, Russia and Brazil.

《马达加斯加3》由维亚康姆（Viacom Inc.）旗下的派拉蒙影业公司（Paramount Pictures）发行，在除美国之外的28个国家获得了7550万美元的票房收入，其中包括中国、俄罗斯和巴西。

Confrontation escalated after Madagascar security forces arrested two strike leaders.

在马达加斯加军警逮捕两名罢工领袖后，冲突扩大。

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. These can be spotted and accounted for.

Cox博士和他的同事们因此能进行印尼人和马达加斯加人线粒体基因组的数据比对，从而推断出原本相同的线粒体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因突变。

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 2745 Indonesians.

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