Collecting matchsticks was fun, until that fateful day one of them caught alight.
收集火柴是一种乐趣,除非一天其中一根火柴不幸燃烧起来。
So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first 'modern men' came from.
于是,考古学家们既缺乏历史记载,又无口头传说来帮助他们弄清最早的“现代人”是从哪里来的。