Nor do the oral histories and traditions of later Polynesians offer any insights, for they turn into myths long before they reach as far back in time as the Lapita.

后来的波利尼西亚人的口述历史和传统也没有提供任何见解，因为它们早在追溯到拉皮塔人的时代之前就已经成为神话。

In oral histories, people tell about their lives.

在口述的历史中，这些人讲述了自己的生平。

Chicago is remembering Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel, capturing the city in the pages of his best-selling oral histories.

他以他的最佳销售口才在这个城市的历史上写下了光辉的一页。

Mr Nelson has conducted extensive interviews with members of the Apollo space programme and combed through NASA archives, newly declassified CIA documents and oral histories.

尼尔森广泛采访了阿波罗月球计划的成员，并彻底搜寻了NASA的档案、新解密的CIA文件及口述的资料。

There are two sources for "Sentences, " both oral histories: Working by Studs Terkel and Yessir, I've Been Here a Long Time: Faces and Words of Americans by George Mitchell.

《句子》有两个来源，都是口头故事，即：Studs Terkel的《工作》（Working）和George Mitchell的《是的先生，我在这儿很久了：美国人的脸和话》。

Historians are gathered at this year's reunion to collect written and oral histories of the attack from the survivors, which will be part of a new 50-million dollar museum and visitor center.

历史学家们将参加今年的团聚，以便从幸存者那里收集书面的和口头史料。这些资料将成为以五千万美元建造的新展览和访问中心的部份内容。

Many endangered languages have rich oral cultures with stories, songs, and histories passed on to younger generations, but no written forms.

众多濒危语言都蕴藏着丰富的口头文化，故事、歌曲与历史均是一代一代口头传承下来，却没有书面形式。