The Mayans lived in Central America thousands of years ago.
数千年前,玛雅人生活在中美洲。
The Mayans were one of the foremost astrologers (and astronomers) of the ancient world.
玛雅人是古代世界最早的占星师(也是天文学家)之一。
To the Mayans, cocoa pods symbolized life and fertility.
对玛雅人来说,可可荚象征着生命和孕育力。
Astonishingly, the Mayans had no metal tools and it is possible that they did not even have the wheel.
让人震惊的是,玛雅人没有金属工具而且很有可能连车轮都没有。
The Mayans set this calendar to begin in the year 3114 B.C. (according to our modern Gregorian calendar).
玛雅人发明的这个历法开始于公元前3114年(根据我们现行的公历)。
Nobody agrees why the Mayans' astonishingly advanced civilisation suddenly collapsed between 750 and 850.
玛雅人有着惊人发达的文明,至于它在公元750至850年间为什么瓦解,人们还没达成共识。
The ancient Mayans built two types of pyramids, those that were meant to be climbed and those that were not.
古玛雅人建造了两类金字塔:一类是用来爬上去的,而另一类则不是。
The first people to grow cacao trees for chocolate were the Mayans, who lived in Mexico thousands of years ago.
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。
Underwater archaeologists have discovered 41 new seaside salt production works used by the ancient Mayans in Central America.
美国的水下考古学家日前又有了一项最新发现,他们在美洲中部发掘出41个古代玛雅人使用过的海边制盐作坊。
By tracking the movements of the Moon, Venus, and other heavenly bodies, the Mayans realized that there were cycles in the Cosmos.
通过跟踪月球,金星和其他天体的运动,玛雅人意识到宇宙有循环周期。
The Aztec and Mayans decorated the pyramids and temples with brightly painted sculptural reliefs and large frescoes or mythical animals.
阿兹·特克人和玛雅人用涂以鲜亮色彩的浮雕、大幅壁画或神秘动物装饰他们的金字塔和庙宇。
The Mayans, who were good-enough astronomers and timekeepers to predict Venus's position 500 years in the future, deserve better than this.
玛雅人在天文学和记录时间方面足够出色。他们在那个年代就预言了500年后金星的位置。然而值得称颂的还不仅仅于此。
The Mayans, who were good-enough astronomers and timekeepers to predict Venus"s position 500 years in the future, deserve better than this."
玛雅人在天文学和记录时间方面足够出色。他们在那个年代就预言了500年后金星的位置。而值得称颂的还不仅于此。
Thee Mayans, who were good-enough astronomers and timekeepers to predict Venus's position 500 years in the future, deserve better than this.
玛雅人在天文学和记录时间方面足够出色。他们在那个年代就预言了500年后金星的位置。而值得称颂的还不仅于此。 。
The Mayans, she argues, do indeed have an alarming message for us, as to why our efforts to solve problems - societal and personal - so often go wrong.
她认为,玛雅人的确给我们发来警告的信息,告诉我们为什么我们在社会和个人角度为解决问题所做的努力通常都有误。
Although the Babylonians had symbols for a zero placeholder in their Numbers, as did the Mayans. It was the Hindu-Arabic system that first worked with the concept of zero things.
虽然巴比伦人跟玛雅人一样,其数字中有符号表示零占位符,但正是印度-阿拉伯语数字系统首次应用零的概念进行运算。
Common in various tribal cultures around the world (such as Mayans, North American natives and Australian Aborigines), the head moulding styles fell into three groups: flat, round or conical.
全球部落文化(如玛雅人,北美土著人和澳大利亚原住民等)中常见的人工加工头骨主要有三种样式:扁平状,圆形,或圆锥形。
Common in various tribal cultures around the world (such as Mayans, North American natives and Australian Aborigines), the head moulding styles fell into three groups: flat, round or conical.
全球部落文化(如玛雅人,北美土著人和澳大利亚原住民等)中常见的人工加工头骨主要有三种样式:扁平状,圆形,或圆锥形。
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