Maya Angelou first staged the play "And I Still Rise" in the late 1970s.
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。
He told Naomi she was becoming just like Maya. Naomi quailed at the thought.
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。
We devote several days to the exploration of the magnificent Maya sites of Copan.
我们投入了几天时间在科潘宏伟的玛雅遗址考察。
The Maya believed in many gods.
玛雅人信奉许多神。
How did those dense southern Maya populations deal with the resulting water problem?
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？
This winter they'll interact with an expedition exploring Central America in search of the classic Maya culture.
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。
The Maya believed that their ancestors essentially came from corn, and they were formed of yellow and white maize dough.
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。
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.
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。
Ten lesson plans—on topics ranging from the Maya language to the Maya creation myth—have been developed for the interactive expedition.
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。
As a result, modern farmers attempting to grow corn in the ancient Maya homelands have faced frequent crop failures, especially in the north.
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。
Rainfall in the Maya homeland is unpredictably variable between years; some recent years have had three or four times more rain than other years.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
Three years ago, Puncha Maya, her husband and five children lived in a shaky flat in southern Nepal.
三年前，Puncha Maya 和她的丈夫以及五个孩子住在尼泊尔南部一间摇摇欲坠的公寓里。
Three years ago, Puncha Maya, her husband, and five children lived in a shaky flat in southern Nepal.
三年前，Puncha Maya 和她的丈夫以及五个孩子住在尼泊尔南部一间摇摇欲坠的公寓里。
Although southern Maya areas received more rainfall than northern areas, problems of water were paradoxically more severe in the wet south.
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。
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.
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。
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".
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”。
The Maya writing system presents any elements of phoneticism.
玛雅文字系统展现了语音的所有元素。
Maya Had Clear Predictions for 2012.
玛雅人对2012年有明确的预言。
These warriors called Maya had fought the Spanish.
那些被叫作玛雅的勇士击败了西班牙人。
Thanks Fiona and thanks Maya for providing such a powerful quote.
多亏了菲奥娜也多亏了玛雅为我提供了很有说服力的论点。
Most of the Maya calendar intervals accumulate as multiples of 20.
玛雅历法的大多数时间间隔以20为倍数。
In the Maya creation myth, the first humans were made of maize dough.
在玛雅人的创世神话中，第一批人由玉米面团捏成。
Neither Maya tradition nor modern astronomy supports a belief in any such beam.
无论是玛雅传统还是现代天文学都不支持这种观点。
Neither Maya tradition nor modern astronomy supports a belief in any such beam.
无论是玛雅传统还是现代天文学都不支持这种观点。
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