Name: 【TED-Ed】三位女探險家的故事與貢獻 (The contributions of female explorers - Courtney Stephens)
Uploaded: 2013-10-05T12:39:49.000Z
Duration: 4 min 26 s

現今，我們把好奇心視為理所當然

We believe that if we put in the hard work,

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we might one day stand before the pyramids,

at a world they were unlikely to ever explore.

Life for women in the time of Queen Victoria

was largely relegated to house chores and gossip.

生活多半在家庭瑣事和八卦閒談中度過

And, although they devoured books on exotic travel,

即使她們讀了描述異國旅行的書

However, there were a few Victorian women, who,

但是，仍有幾位維多利亞時期女性

1860 年，瑪麗安娜．諾斯 (Marianne North)

In fact, she went to every continent except Antarctica

事實上，除了南極洲，她走遍了各大洲

追尋新品種的花，把它們畫下來

I never saw such abundance of pure color."

我從未看過這麼豐富的純色。」

And all this in the customary dress of her day,

As photography had not yet been perfected,

Marianne's paintings gave botanists back in Europe

瑪麗安娜的畫作讓歐洲植物學家

their first glimpses of some of the world's most unusual plants,

第一次有機會一瞥世上罕見的植物

as she was the first European to catalog them in the wild.

因為她是第一位 在大自然記錄這些植物的歐洲人

Miss Mary Kingsley was the sheltered daughter

瑪莉．金斯利 (Mary Kingsley)  是一位旅行醫生的女兒

Midway through writing a book on the subject,

她父親在撰寫一本關於非洲文化的書

So, Kingsley decided she would finish the book for him.

因此金斯利決定要為父親完成這本書

Peers of her father advised her not to go,

她父親的朋友都勸她不要去非洲

landing in modern-day  Sierra Leone in 1896

with two large suitcases and a phrase book.

and tickling a hippopotamus with her umbrella

so that he'd leave the side of her canoe.

she was saved from harm by her thick petticoat.

她寫道：「一條烹煮得恰到好處的蛇

is one of the best meals one gets out here," she wrote.

是你在那裡可以吃到的最棒的料理。」

你覺得印第安那瓊斯足智多謀？

和亞歷珊卓．大衛─尼爾 (Alexandra David-Néel) Alexandra David-Neel 一樣大膽

Alexandra, who had studied Eastern religions

She decided the only way to be taken seriously

她認定唯一能讓大家 認真看待她的方式

'This woman lived among the things she's talking about.

『這個女人親身體驗了 她一直在訴說的一切。

She touched them and she saw them alive,'" she wrote.

她碰觸過，也親眼看過。』」她寫道

When she arrived at the border from India,

So, she disguised herself as a Tibetan man.

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