The Spaniards didn't find El Dorado, but they did find Lake Guatavita and tried to drain it in 1545.
西班牙人没有找到黄金国，但他们却在1545年找到了瓜达维达湖并试图将其排干。
And like all enduring legends, the tale of El Dorado contains some scraps of truth.
和其他所有不朽的传说一样，黄金国的故事也包含一些支离破碎的真实成分。
There is no appetite to return to the moon, let alone push on to Mars, El Dorado of space exploration.
没有了重返月球的愿望，更不用说推动去传说中的黄金国火星的空间探索。
In the 16th and 17th centuries, Europeans believed that somewhere in the New World there was a place of immense wealth known as el Dorado.
在16和17世纪，欧洲人相信在新大陆的某个地方有一个黄金国，那里拥有巨大的财富。
English courtier Sir Walter Raleigh made two trips to Guiana to search for El Dorado.
当时的英国宠臣沃尔特·雷利爵士曾两次到圭亚那寻找黄金国。
An El Dorado. It was filthy. It looked like a huge crushed can coming up the street.
这辆车非常脏，开到街上好像个巨大的被压坏了的罐子。
El Dorado is fading back into desert.
理想中的黄金国正在重新蜕变成沙漠。
The ceremony of the gilded man supposedly ended in the late 15th century when El Dorado and his subjects were conquered by another tribe.
镀金人的仪式可能在15世纪晚期就结束了，因当时这个El Dorado和他的臣民已被另一个部落所征服。
Other big fields, at Majnoon and Nahr Umar, are nearby. Clustered to the west and south of the Zagros Mountains, which loom across the border in Iran, this is a geological el Dorado.
而像Majnon和NahrUmar等其他大油田，也分布附近，簇拥在横卧伊朗边境的扎格罗斯山脉以西、以南，这里是一座地质学宝库。
The legend of El Dorado endures because "you want it to be true," says Jose Oliver, a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London.
黄金国的传说能够长盛不衰就是因为“你希望它是真的”，伦敦大学考古学院讲师JoseOliver说道。
The Spaniards started calling this golden chief El Dorado, "the gilded one."
于是西班牙人就开始称呼这个金色酋长为El Dorado就是“镀金人”的意思。
"I was a conquistador, but rather than searching the land for El Dorado, I scoured aisles for free samples," it continued.
“我是一个征服者，但是我没有继续在这一黄金国中搜寻，我把目标转向了免费样品区，”文章继续写道。
我讲的是一个埃尔多拉多？
The Internet is a virtual goldmine - call it a virtual El Dorado , if you will.
互联网是一个虚拟的金矿-称之为一个虚拟埃尔多拉多，如果您的意愿。
Jiaozhou, known by reputation as "Renowned Land", has been reputed as "Golden Jiaozhou" and also "El Dorado" (which means "an idealized gold country" in German) since Ming and Qing Dynasties.
胶州号称“海表名邦”，明清以来又有“金胶州”和“多拉多”（德语“理想黄金国”的意思）的美誉。
"The house's U-shaped plan encloses terraced gardens and a sunken entry courtyard, " explained the El Dorado.
“建筑U型的平面围合了露台花园和下沉入口庭院，”El Dorado解释道。
Burnett, Graham D. Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN: 0226081206.
巴涅特，格雷厄姆D。《所有调查的主导者：探索，地理学和大不列颠的黄金国》。芝加哥：芝加哥大学出版社，2000。ISBN：0226081206。
Burnett, Graham D. Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN: 0226081206.
巴涅特，格雷厄姆D。《所有调查的主导者：探索，地理学和大不列颠的黄金国》。芝加哥：芝加哥大学出版社，2000。ISBN：0226081206。
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