Malagasy

The capital and largest city of the Malagasy Republic.

马达加斯加的首都和最大城市。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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，

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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We're bringing back the shelter of the forests, and we don't have to cut trees, says Herve Tahirimalala, a Malagasy who is paid$ 100 a month to work on the project.

我们将回到森林里居住，而且我们不需要砍树了，马达加斯加当地住民埃尔韦如是说道。

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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。

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The Malagasy Meteorological Service take this approach, using data produced by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

马达加斯加气象服务中心采用这种办法，用美国麻省理工学院研究者们获得的数据进行模拟。

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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；

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Agreement relating to the Creation of an African and Malagasy Office of Industrial Property

建立非洲和马达加斯加工业产权管理局的协定

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Nosy Be, which means "big island" in Malagasy, is Madagascar's largest island.

诺西贝，这个词在马达加斯加表示“大岛”的意思，是马达加斯加最大的岛屿。

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HOPE FOR MADAGASCAR, a non-profit organization, assists the Malagasy in their development of sustainable communities both in the rainforest and throughout the impoverished areas of the country.

希望-马达加斯加」是一个非营利组织，协助马拉加西各个社团在雨林地区与全国赤贫区域这两方面的永续性发展。

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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。

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