她那时从事一个玛雅考古遗址的挖掘工作。
She worked on the excavation of a Mayan archaeological site.
我们投入了几天时间在科潘宏伟的玛雅遗址考察。
We devote several days to the exploration of the magnificent Maya sites of Copan.
他告诉内奥米说，她正变得像玛雅一样。内奥米让该念头吓住了。
He told Naomi she was becoming just like Maya. Naomi quailed at the thought.
玛雅•安吉罗在20世纪70年代末首次将戏剧《我仍将奋起》搬上舞台。
Maya Angelou first staged the play "And I Still Rise" in the late 1970s.
玛雅人信奉许多神。
玛雅南部人口这么秘籍，他们是如何应对由此产生的水问题的？
How did those dense southern Maya populations deal with the resulting water problem?
今年冬天，他们将与探索中美洲以寻找经典玛雅文化的探险队进行交流。
This winter they'll interact with an expedition exploring Central America in search of the classic Maya culture.
这个组织为玛雅人、姆巴克斯人和莫亚斯人提供微薄的100美元奖金。
This organization offers people like the Mayas, the Mbakwas and the Moyas modest $100 grand.
因此，特别是在北部地区，现代农民试图在古玛雅家园种植玉米却面临歉收。
As a result, modern farmers attempting to grow corn in the ancient Maya homelands have faced frequent crop failures, especially in the north.
玛雅人用他们挣来的钱买了一小块土地，在上面种蔬菜和养山羊以获得额外收入。
With the money they've earned, the Mayas have purchased a small plot, on which they grew vegetables and raise goats for additional income.
在科巴市，玛雅人围绕着一个湖泊修建堤坝，以提高水位，使供水更加稳定可靠。
At the city of Coba the Maya built dikes around a lake in order to raise its level and make their water supply more reliable.
玛雅人认为他们祖先基本上是从玉米进化而来的，由黄玉米与白玉米面团做成的。
The Maya believed that their ancestors essentially came from corn, and they were formed of yellow and white maize dough.
玛雅故土的降雨量在不同年份是变化莫测的；最近几年的降雨量比其他年份多三到四倍。
Rainfall in the Maya homeland is unpredictably variable between years; some recent years have had three or four times more rain than other years.
古代玛雅人也许经验更丰富，做得更好，但他们也一定会面临干旱和飓风引起谷物歉收的风险。
The ancient Maya were presumably more experienced and did better, but nevertheless they too must have faced risks of crop failures from droughts and hurricanes.
在半岛北部，海拔足够低，因此古玛雅人能够经由被称为竖井的深层排水口或深洞探及地下水位。
In the northern peninsula the elevation is sufficiently low that the ancient Maya were able to reach the water table at deep sinkholes called cenotes, or at deep caves.
尽管玛雅故地南部地区的降雨量比北部地区更多，但是，在潮湿的南部地区，水资源的问题反而更加严重。
Although southern Maya areas received more rainfall than northern areas, problems of water were paradoxically more severe in the wet south.
这样的论据是有道理的，然而，对于理解玛雅地区其他富水地区的用水和控制的社会政治影响来说，就没那么有用了。
Such an argument is plausible, however, it is less useful for understanding the sociopolitical implications of water use and control in other, water-rich parts of the Maya region.
最近对古玛雅水资源管理的研究发现，一些城市的城市建筑被用来分流降雨径流到相互连接的水库的重力补给系统中。
Recent studies of ancient Maya water management have found that the urban architecture of some cities was used to divert rainfall runoff into gravity-fed systems of interconnected reservoirs.
如果一个人侧重雨季，就会把玛雅故土称为“季节性热带森林”；而如果侧重旱季，就可以把它描述为“季节性沙漠”。
If one focuses on the wet months, one calls the Maya homeland a "seasonal tropical forest"; if one focuses on the dry months, one could instead describe it as a "seasonal desert".
事实上，来自特奥蒂瓦坎的手工艺品和陶器已经在远至玛雅低地、危地马拉高地、墨西哥北部和墨西哥海湾海岸的地方被发现。
In fact, artifacts and pottery from Teotihuacán have been discovered in sites as far away as the Mayan lowlands, the Guatemalan highlands, northern Mexico, and the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
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.
最早种植可可树来制作巧克力的是玛雅人，几千年前他们生活在墨西哥。
The first people to grow cacao trees for chocolate were the Mayans, who lived in Mexico thousands of years ago.
十个课程计划——主题从玛雅语言到玛雅创造神话——已经为互动探险开发。
Ten lesson plans—on topics ranging from the Maya language to the Maya creation myth—have been developed for the interactive expedition.
尽管阿兹特克、玛雅和印加文明的未解之谜已经为人所知几个世纪，现在公众也开始意识到一些不寻常的超自然现象，这些现象发生在如秘鲁的国家。
Although the mysteries of the Aztec, Mayan, and Inca civilizations have been known for centuries, now the public is also becoming aware of unusual, paranormal phenomena in countries such as Peru.
玛雅文字系统展现了语音的所有元素。
The Maya writing system presents any elements of phoneticism.
这个圣地是尤卡坦半岛最伟大的玛雅中心之一。
This sacred site was one of the greatest Mayan centres of the Yucatán peninsula.
你在告别自己不好的一面，玛雅。
玛雅森林的状况是一个很好的实例。
玛雅森林的状况是一个很好的实例。
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