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What comes to your mind when you think of an Australians? If a white man
(생각 따위가) 떠오르다 * occur to, strike
with a kind smile is your idea, then you are not alone. Australian men are
= many people think so, too
generally thought to be tall and white, have light colored hair, and smile a
복문전환 ⇒ It is generally thought that Australian men are tall and white,
lot. But there are Australians who have black hair and brown skin. They are
the Aborigines, the first Australians.
원주민, 토착민; (A-) 오스트레일리아 원주민
Many people also make the mistake of thinking that Australia was discovered
= confuse, err, misunderstand
in 1770, when the first white people from Europe arrived. In fact, the
= and then = As a matter of fact
Aborigines arrived there from Asia at least 40,000 years ago. Australia was
= not less than * not more than = at most(많아봐야)
the last populated landmass to be discovered by Europeans. Long before the
광대한 토지; 대륙. ↳ which was discovered
British claimed it as their own, European explorers and traders had been
= assert, declare, maintain
dreaming of the riches to be found in the unknown southern land that was
↳ which would be found
supposed to form a counterbalance to the landmass north of the equator.
대항세력
The continent they eventually found had already been lived on for tens of
S + that 생략 : 형용사절 ⇒ 주부 ↳ 과거완료 수동태 by someone 생략
thousands of years.
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