There is an African bird called the guinea fowl.

非洲有一种鸟叫珍珠鸡。

Portuguese traders brought the guinea fowl to Europe through North Africa.

葡萄牙商北非将珍珠鸡带到了欧洲。

When Europeans came to North America, they saw a bird that looked like the guinea fowl.

欧洲到达北美时，看到了与珍珠鸡相似的鸟。

They were packed with images of wide farms, dry riverbeds, windswept veld, frolicking gemsbok and scratching guinea fowl.

这些诗篇的意象里是宽阔的农场，干涸的河床，刮风的草场，嬉戏的大羚羊还有觅食的珍珠鸡。

He's cooking guinea-fowl? - Don't even ask.

在做珍珠鸡? -别问了。

This is a feather from one of the most beautiful birds we have in Kenya, the crested guinea fowl.

这是我们在肯尼亚拥有的最美丽的鸟类之一— —有冠珍珠鸡的羽毛。

So they're right about where the guinea fowl comes  from, but they're not right about where the turkey comes from.

所以们对珍珠鸡的来源是正确的，但们对火鸡的来源是不对的。

On tree branches, ants began to march out of their holes and head to ground, careful to stay out of the way of the hungry guinea fowl.

树枝上，蚂从洞里爬出来，小心地避饥饿的珍珠鸡，向地面爬去。

The guinea-fowl likes to hide her nest in out-of-the-way places, and it was one of my greatest delights to hunt for the eggs in the long grass.

珍珠鸡喜欢把巢藏匿在偏僻角落里，我最大的快乐之一就是搜寻草窝里的鸡蛋。

So the story starts, not with the  bird that we call turkey, but with another bird: this flashy feathered fellow called the helmeted  guinea fowl.

故事的并不是从我们称之为火鸡的鸟，而是从另一种鸟：这种羽毛华丽的家伙， 被称为头盔珍珠鸡。

Home was good then, with supper of red wine and biscuits and quail from yesterday's hunt, or a roast guinea, and afterward, good talk by the blazing hearth-fire.

那时的家很不错， 晚餐有红酒、饼干和昨天打猎的鹌鹑， 或者烤珍珠鸡， 然后在熊熊的炉火旁畅谈一番。

" Some Europeans saw an American turkey, thought that it was the guinea fowl, which at that time was called the 'turkey cock, ' and so gave it the same name."

“一些欧洲看到一只美洲火鸡，以为它是珍珠鸡，当时叫‘turkey cock’，所以给它起了同样的名字。”

Many birds were domesticated for meat, eggs, and feathers: the chicken in China, various duck and goose species in parts of Eurasia, turkeys in Mesoamerica, guinea fowl in Africa, and the Muscovy duck in South America.

许多鸟类被驯化以获取肉、蛋和羽毛：中国的鸡、欧亚大陆部分地区的各种鸭和鹅、中美洲的火鸡、非洲的珍珠鸡和南美洲的番鸭。