Last week Opportunity surpassed Viking 1 as the longest running mission on Mars, now extending well over six years.(上周機遇號超越了海盜1號成為火星上運行時間最長的任務，至今運行時間已延長了六年。)

The caves date back to early Viking times in about 800 A.D..(這些洞穴可以追溯到公元800年的維京時代。)

Mister Sagan helped choose the landing area for Viking One and Viking Two, the first space vehicles to successfully land on Mars.(薩根先生還幫助海盜一號和海盜二號火星探測器選擇在火星登陸的地點，這是人類火星探測器第一次成功在火星上著陸。)

The trophy was commissioned as part of Dublin's millennial celebrations and is in the shape of a horned Viking helmet.(此獎杯是都柏林建城1000年紀念時留下的獎品，其造型為有角的維京人頭盔。)

Icelanders are good, too: They are all descendants, Barzilai says, of five Viking men and four Irish women.(冰島人也是很好的對象，Barzilai說他們都是五個維京男人與四個愛爾蘭女人的后裔。)

A young Viking teenager named Hiccup aspires to follow his tribe's tradition of becoming a dragon slayer.(一位名叫Hiccup的維京少年立志要繼承部落的傳統(tǒng)，成為屠龍者。)

The Viking longboats that arrived here in 982 relied on the stars and the sun to maintain their orientation.(斯堪的納維亞人的海盜小艇在公元982年就抵達格陵蘭島，他們能保持航向靠的只是星星與太陽的位置。)

By Steven Pinker. Viking; 802 pages; $40.(我們本性中好的一面：《維京海盜》作者：斯蒂文平克，802頁，40美元。)

These buildings offer vital insight into Scandinavia's Viking past.(這些建筑提供了對斯堪的納維亞維京人的過去的重要理解。)

The animal threatens to munch through thousands of Viking vessels and other historic shipwrecks, scientists warn.(科學家警告，這種動物正在吞噬掉數(shù)以千計的海盜沉船和其它歷史時期的沉船。)

Norse Vikings whose dragon boats preyed on the coasts.