Through thick and thin, they have always been my precious team mates, advisers, and above all, friends.
我们同甘共苦,亲如伙伴,他们是我的军师,更是我的朋友。
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。