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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.