19世纪早期的时候，从遥远的库页岛来的当地人仍然给住在支流的满族人送来贡品。

As late as the early 19th century natives from as far away as Sakhalin were still bringing tribute to the Manchus on the lower river.

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勘测亚马逊河支流的美国探险家戈登·麦克里奇曾记述说，他凌晨3点就听见印第安人起身，深感愕然。

Gordon MacCreach, an American explorer in these Amazon tributaries, reported that he was startled to hear the Indians get up at three in the morning.

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语言一直都在变化：那是条流动的溪水，不停地在转换、变换，接受千条支流的新生力量，丢弃旧形式。

The language is perpetually in flux: it is a living stream, shifting, changing, receiving new strength from a thousand tributaries, losing old forms in the backwaters of time.

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