When he misses home, there are several Brazilian restaurants where he can go and speak Portuguese, his native language.
当他想家的时候，他可以去几家巴西餐馆，说他的母语葡萄牙语。
Europeans did not know of them until the 1500s, when Portuguese ships arrived on the coast of what is now Sierra Leone.
直到16世纪，当葡萄牙的船只抵达现在的塞拉利昂海岸时，欧洲人才知道它们的存在。
Venus flytraps, for example, share an ancestor with Portuguese sundews, which only catch prey passively, via 'flypaper' glands on their stems.
例如，维纳斯捕蝇草和葡萄牙茅膏菜有共同的祖先，后者只通过茎上的“捕蝇纸”腺体被动地捕捉猎物。
The Portuguese Vasco da Gama's Voyage around southern Africa to India took place at the end of the fifteenth century, and by 1502 the trans-Abrabian caravan route had been cut off by political unrest.
While the Portuguese took part in the trade, ferrying nuts down the coast along with other goods, by 1620, when English explorer Richard Jobson made his way up the Gambia, the nuts were still peculiar to his eyes.
The conventional explanation for the loss of Venetian dominance in trade is establishment of the Portuguese direct sea route to the East, replacing the overland Silk Road from the Black sea and the highly profitable Indian Ocean-caravan-eastern Mediterranean route to Venice.
