翻譯 ch2 NO1

For years, the story of Easter Island has been used in textbooks as an example of how humans can seriously degrade their own life-support system. It concerns a civilization that once thrived and then disappeared from a small, isolated island in the great expense of the South Pacific, located about 3,600 kilometers(2,200 miles) off the coast of Chile.

好幾年，復活節島的故事已經被用於教科書舉例說做為一個人類能如何嚴重的貶低他們自己支持生活的制度。
它有關於一個被孤立的島，位於智利海外3600公里(2200哩)，曾經繁榮又突然消失的文明，在南太平洋是很大的損失。