玛雅人

玛雅人有一种特殊的食物叫可可。

The Mayan people had a special food called cocoa .

500年前，欧洲人发现了玛雅人，并用可可制作巧克力。

Five hundred years ago , the Europeans found the Mayans and used cocoa to make chocolate .

最近，Crown获知中美洲的玛雅人在宗教仪式过程中，用相似的高柱瓶来装巧克力喝。

Recently , Crown learned that the Maya people of Central America used similar-looking vases to drink chocolate during rituals and rites of passage .

对中美洲的古代玛雅人来说，热带大雕就是Moan，一种带来不祥和死亡的鸟。

To the ancient Mayans of CentralAmerica the bird was Moan , a bird of ill omen and death .

或者，我会从危地马拉的托多斯桑托斯（todossantos）出发，沿吉普车无法通行的小路，一路寻找玛雅人后代编织的闪亮纺织品。

Or setting forth from todos Santos in Guatemala , down paths impassable to jeeps , in search of the radiant textiles woven by descendents of the Maya .

Demarest让这些玛雅人成为了他的文物挖掘项目的权益持有人，从而达成了两重目的：为这些玛雅人提供长期就业机会，并激励他们保护文物遗址不被洗劫。

By making them stakeholders in his excavations , Demarest fulfils a twofold vision : providing them with both long-term employment and an incentive to protect the excavation sites from looting .

玛雅人好，还有什么你为我们的生活？

Okay Mayans , what else do you have for us ?

玛雅人日历会在2012年12月结束吗？

Q : Does the Mayan calendar end in December 2012 ?

对玛雅人来说，可可荚象征着生命和孕育力。

To the Mayans , cocoa pods symbolized life and fertility .

玛雅人明白到17种以宇宙为基础的不同历法。

The Maya understood 17 different Calendars based on the Cosmos .

根据玛雅人的信仰体系，世界将结束。

According to the Mayan belief system , the world will end .

长许多玛雅人继续过他们的祖先一样。

C.Many Mayan continue to live as their ancestors did .

正如强大的玛雅人都不能控制预言，我们也不能。

As powerful Mayas can not control the prediction , we either .

这些成就显示了玛雅人高超的创造力和辉煌灿烂的文化。

These achievements show their great creativity and splendid culture .

玛雅人是曾经生活在墨西哥的一古老民族。

The Maya were an ancient people who once lived in Mexico .

古玛雅人的文字在风格上主要是图画。

The ancient Maya writing is largely pictorial in Style .

傻傻的玛雅人，他们能懂些什么？

Those silly Mayans : what do they know ?

阿芷台克人为了巩固他们在墨西哥的统治权，对玛雅人采取了抑制策略。

By subjugating the Mayas , the Aztecs strengthened their supremacy in Mexico .

对玛雅人来说，这并不是世界末日。

For the Mayans , it 's not the end of the world .

但是玛雅人很爱这种东西。

The Mayans , however , loved the stuff .

红色是古代玛雅人死亡与复活连系在一起的颜色。

Red was the color the ancient Mayas associated with death and resurrection .

从这我们知道玛雅人的城市主要是由贵族居住的。

From this we know that Mayan cities were used mainly by the nobles .

但这部电影清楚地表明，玛雅人不一定是在预测灾难。

But the film makes clear that the Maya were not necessarily predicting catastrophe .

在玛雅人的创世神话中，第一批人由玉米面团捏成。

In the Maya creation myth , the first humans were made of maize dough .

对于玛雅人而言，一座冒烟的火山并不永远意味着厄运的凶兆。

For the Maya , a smoking volcano wasn 't always a harbinger of doom .

开始！它是苏美尔人，腓尼基人，玛雅人还是维京人？

Here we go , was it the Sumarians , Phoenicians , Maya or Vikings ?

他们玛雅人住在现在伯利兹的一部分，危地马拉和墨西哥。

They Maya lives in parts of what are now Belize , Guatemala and Mexico .

然而，玛雅人没有说任何关于世界末日的事。

However , the Mayans did not say anything about the end of the world .

公元600年左右，玛雅人是中美洲主要的土著居民。

Around A.D. 600 , the Mayas were the main aboriginal group in Central America .

注意看玛雅人的图例。

Focus on the Mayan legends .