“And at the center, it's the Pripyat River Valley.”
而中间则是普里皮亚季河河谷。
“It's just some linguistics humor ——”
只是语言学里的笑话
“You konw, the slavic homeland.”
斯拉夫人的故乡
“You know, it's just this weird, dorky thing.”
就是一个古怪无聊的知识
“Go on.”
继续
“Go on, tell me.”
继续，告诉我
“Ok, so, around the year 600, Slavic people suddenly appeared all over Europe. You know, Germany, Poland, Serbia, Russia. But nobody could figure out where they came from.”
公元600年左右，斯拉夫人突然遍布全欧洲。德国，波兰，塞尔维亚，俄罗斯。但没人能弄清楚他们来自哪里
“The slavic homeland.”
斯拉夫人的故乡
“Right. It was the huge historical mystery, until they started looking at language, and then they realized that proto-Slavic was missing words for certain kinds of trees. You know, they had to borrow words, for oak and beech and pine and ……”
是的，这一直是历史未解之谜，直到他们开始研究语言，然后他们发现原始斯拉夫语中没有几种特定树木的词语，他们得从别的语言借词，来称呼橡树，山毛榉，松树什么的
“The nachos are Europe. The slavs are everywhere, but they don't have a word for Jalapeño, so they can't come form here.”
玉米片就是欧洲。欧洲到处是斯拉夫人，但他么没有墨西哥辣椒这个词，所以他们不可能来自那儿
Exactly.
没错
And they have no word for beans, or salsa or sour cream，which eliminates everywhere but here.
他们也没有豆子，辣酱，酸奶油这些词。所以排除了所有地方，除了这里
The Pripyat River Valley in Ukraine
乌克兰的普里皮亚季河河谷
It's basically this huge swamp. The one place in Europe where there are no tree
那儿基本就是个大沼泽，是欧洲唯一一处没有树的地方
Right
是啊
It was brilliant because, up until then, they had only been looking at the words that they had, and the key was in the words that they didn't have. What they didn't say
这样研究的厉害之处就在于之前他们只分析斯拉夫语中已有的词语，然而关键在于语言中没有的词语。斯拉夫人不说的东西
……what they didn't know how to say
他们不知道怎么说的东西
—— Manhunt:Unabomber S01EP03
