'Til then: it seems that old stereotype about Neandertals being brutish cave dwellers is already critically endangered. If not extinct.

看起来人们认为尼安德特人“穴居人”这一刻板印象会“极度濒危”，即使没有灭绝的话。

Just days ago, the last family of cave dwellers living near the hotel moved on. Some of their belongings are still here.

就在几天前，酒店附近最后一户洞穴人家也搬走了。他们有些物品还留在这里。

The group said the cave dwellers included 84 women and 62 children.

该组织称，洞穴居民包 84 名妇女和 62 名儿童。

Imagine now that one of the cave dwellers manages to free himself from his bonds.

现在想象一下，其中一位洞穴居民设法摆脱了束缚。

I am not really a cave dweller, despite my anti-technology stance on things.

尽管我对事物持反技术立场，但我并不真正的洞穴居民。

It's astonishing that these extraordinary cave dwellers manage to survive at all.

这些奇异的洞栖生物能如此成功地生存 的确令人称奇。

Small wonder then that there are other cave dwellers that stay put.

难怪其它洞穴生物 要终生居住在洞穴中。

Based on these facts, scientist Nikolai Kardashev developed a method of categorizing civilizations, from cave dwellers to gods ruling over galaxies: The Kardashev Scale; a method of ranking civilizations by their energy use.

基于这些事实，科学家尼古拉·卡尔达肖夫发明了一套给文明分类的方法——从穴居人到统治整个星系的神灵——卡尔达肖夫指数，一套通过能量使用来对文明进行排名的方法。