澳大利亚的介绍--.pptVIP

lyrebird (琴鸟) -Australia’s national bird lyrebird We do not know exactly how long the country has been occupied but the earliest discovered site of occupation is about 47 000 years old . To put this in perspective , since the First Fleet arrived in 1788 there have been only eight generations of settlers . On the other hand , there have been at least 18 500 generations of the Peoples of the Dreaming . The Peoples of the Dreaming belonged to over 500 different groups or nations with different languages and cultures but they were bound together by their belief in the Dreaming . “The Dreaming” or “The Dreamtime” is the most enduring religion in Australia today . “The Dreaming” or “The Dreamtime” 梦创时代，是原住民文化的重要组成部分。它是指原住民的神话中所指的远古时期，那时起球形成了其目前的形态，生命和自然的形式和周期也在那时开始。有关梦创时代的传说构成了今天原住民的价值观和社会关系。澳大利亚原住民以为只有在梦境之中，人才可以得到对远古创始期的认知，故称其为Dreaming 。 There were somewhere between 200 to 250 different languages spoken on the continent . Some of these languages still exist today: The Arrernte people lived in the desert regions of Central Australia . The Thurrawai , the Dhurga and the Dyirringa peoples , lived on the fertile plains of the Illawarra in the South East . The Gundungurra and the Ngarigu are the People of the table lands and the snowfields to the west of these plains , in the land on which Canberra , the Australian capital now stands . Pitjanjara is the language of a number of different family groups whose country is in the central and southern desert region . The Jawoyn people belong to the tropical north of the country  歌曲产生背景：1895年，彼德森同他的未婚妻莎拉。雷利（Sarah Riley ）一起，访问了莎拉的同校朋友克里斯蒂娜。麦克菲森（Christina Macpherson）在昆示兰偏远地区的家宅。在那里，他听到克里斯蒂娜用自鸣筝演奏了一首叫做“Craigeelee”的乐曲，彼德森喜欢这首曲子的 那种怪诞和梦幻的感觉，于是产生了为该曲子填歌词的想法。 主人带他在家宅附近参观的时候，他看到了池塘边一个新剥下来的羊皮。显然是有人偷了羊，把它杀了吃肉。于是主人麦克菲森告诉他在1894年9 月发生的一次剪羊毛工罢工的故事。当时，剪羊毛工放火烧了麦克菲森的家宅，还杀了一百多只羊。麦克菲森和三个警察追捕他们的时候，其中一个剪羊毛工宁愿被 警察射杀也不愿被捕。彼德森受此启发，于是把这些所见所闻写成这首歌词，而克里斯蒂娜则把她弹奏的曲子记录了下来，一首传世之作就诞生了。  澳大利亚第二国歌 The continent of Australia lies between equatorial （赤