一些学者认为,集中在这些地点的城市核心区的水资源为玛雅精英提供了一个集中的政治权力来源,而这些权力主要是基于对水资源的控制。
Some scholars argue that the concentration of water within the urban core of these sites provided a centralized source of political authority for Maya elites based largely on controlled water access.
另一个很好的例子是会议中心,它通常配备有酒店和宽敞的会议场地,以吸引人们来这座城市进行主要商务会议和各种活动。
Another really good example is convention center which typically has a hotel and large meeting spaces to draw visitors to the city for major business conferences and events.
如果你住在一个活动场地附近或者城市的主要中心,你可以从参加者那里得到靠近你车道的停车费。
If you live near an event space or major urban center, you can collect parking fees from attendees willing to pay for proximity.
维克斯堡是密西西比河与溢洪道汇合前的最后一个主要城市,汇合后的洪水转向阿查法拉亚河并与沼泽地邻接。
Vicksburg is the last major city before the flow of the river meets the spillways where it's diverted into the Atchafalaya River and adjoining swamplands.
南部另一个主要城市贾拉拉巴德也发生了激战;致使我们的记者和乌兹·别克人一道躲避在一所大学的操场上。
There was fighting in Jalalabad, the other major city of the south; our correspondent sheltered with Uzbeks in a university courtyard.
没有一个地方能像洛杉矶一样把花园“阳”房作为城市身份的主要特征,因此,上述变化给洛城带来的震动也比其他地方大。
Yet nowhere has the dream of a house and a sun-drenched garden been so central to a city's identity for so long as in Los Angeles. So nowhere does the change come as such a shock.
环境部长拉梅什说,印度正展开一个10年的项目,用来保证未经处理的工业废水和城市污水不能流入印度主要河流恒河。
Ramesh says India has undertaken a 10-year program to ensure no untreated industrial effluent or urban sewage is released into the country's main river, the Ganges.
莱斯利开始决定在杰夫平日联系生意的每一个主要城市去寻找目标。
Lesley became determined to target every major city where Jeff normally contracted business.
当地商会领导Steve Cushman清点该城主要商业街上空置店铺数量,结果是410间商店里有27间空置——一个让加州其他城市羡慕不已的低比率。
Steve Cushman, head of the local chamber of commerce, counts just 27 empty storefronts out of 410 along the city’s main shopping street—a rate that many cities in California would envy.
作为一个例子,请考虑一个每小时调用WorldWeatherWebService来查询主要城市的气象的插件,它要使这些信息可供其他插件和视图使用。
As an example, consider a plug-in that invokes a World Weather Web Service for major cities every hour and wants to make the information available to other plug-in and views.
提示:美国住宅和城市发展部(又名HUD)在YouTube上有一个主要为购房者提供建议的视频频道。
Tip: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (a.k.a. HUD) has a YouTube channel featuring videos with advice for home buyers.
主要在农村地区,不到十五万的人口居住区就设有一个乡镇法庭(tribunaldegrandeinstance,又称大事法庭);在大城市里,一个同规模的法庭却要为五十五万人口提供服务。
In largely rural areas, there is a tribunal de grande instance (county court) for fewer than 150, 000 people; in big cities, one such court serves over 550, 000.
如果水是该国家的一个主要问题,但它并不意味着该国的城市居民不关心他们居住的环境。
If water is mainly a problem for people in the country, it does not mean that city-dwellers are unconcerned about their surroundings.
一半以上生活在俄克拉荷马州的主要城市,首都,或者塔尔萨,另一个大城市。
More than half live in the metropolitan areas of Oklahoma City, the capital, or Tulsa, its other sizeable city.
主要城市达加尔城外一个村庄的居民说,他所看见的主要是武装直升机向激进分子的据点开火。
One resident of a village just outside the main city Dagar, said that he has mainly seen helicopter gunships firing on militant positions.
每一个主要城市和许多小城市都有免费的博物馆。
Every major city and many smaller ones have freebie museums.
其中一个关键因素就是我提到的规范化数据,它使用一个视图来描述城市主要区域的不同数据类型。
One key element to consider is what I call the normalization of data, which provides a single view of different types of data across a city's many domains.
利比亚另外一个城市米苏拉塔一名叛军发言人告诉BBC,争夺该城市主要道路控制权的战斗仍在继续。
A rebel spokesman in another Libyan city Misrata told the BBC that fighting was continuing for control of the main roads through the city.
人们考虑的最热门目的地包括美国一个主要城市(65%)、欧洲(42%)、美国国内海滩(34%)以及加勒比海(20%)。
The most popular destinations under consideration include a major American city (65 percent), Europe (42 percent), domestic beaches (34 percent) and the Caribbean (20 percent).
在这里我主要的比较了自行车和汽车,但同时我不是一个极端的环保主义者,我想要住在一个人们骑车多余开车的城市。
I've mostly compared bikes to cars here, but whilst I'm not exactly a tree-hugger, I would love to live in a city where people cycled more than they drove.
的确有可能,因为这座城市位于南北和东西铁路主干线交界的地方,对于一个大多数货物都用火车运载的国家来说,这是一个主要的财富。
True, it sits at a railway crossroads between the main north-south and east-west lines, a major asset in a country where most goods still are moved by train.
瓦卡坐落在通往莱比锡和法兰克福两个城市的主要公路旁,这儿从11世纪起就是一个商业重镇。
Situated on the main road between Leipzig and Frankfurt, the village has been a commercial crossroad for 11 centuries.
伊斯特雷格并非一个旅游城市——一座阴郁的铁路工人青铜雕像是它主要的公共纪念雕塑——但是在培养新办企业方面,伊斯特雷格确有聪明办法。
Eastleigh is hardly a tourist town-a dour bronze railwayman is its main public monument-but it has a brilliant formula for incubating new businesses.
伊斯特雷格并非一个旅游城市——一座阴郁的铁路工人青铜雕像是它主要的公共纪念雕塑——但是在培养新办企业方面,伊斯特雷格确有聪明办法。
Eastleigh is hardly a tourist town-a dour bronze railwayman is its main public monument-but it has a brilliant formula for incubating new businesses.
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