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。
The Mayans invented the calendars we use today.
玛雅人发明了我们今天使用的历法。
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。
The Mayans lived in Central America thousands of years ago.
数千年前，玛雅人生活在中美洲。
Finally, man was constructed from maize, the Mayans staple and sacred food.
最后，人是由玉米，玛雅人的主食，神圣的食物。
Some people think this is a sign that the Mayans knew when the world would end.
许多人认为这标志玛雅人知道世界在什么时候结束。
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。
Understanding the power of 13 and 20 as the Mayans helps us awaken God within all of us.
了解13跟20的力量，马雅人帮我们唤醒我们所有人的内在神性。
The Mayans used that information by creating with the Positive vibration of the Polarity.
玛雅人使用同极性振动产生积极的信息。
It was used by the Mayans as well as by Celts and in other parts of Europe in the Middle Ages.
玛雅人、凯尔特人以及中世纪欧洲的其他地区也使用二十进制。
The Mayans went so far as to pinpoint its actual occurrence in what you would call the year 2011 a.
玛雅人甚至精确地将它的实际发生定位在你们所说的公元2011年。
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。
They did not share this knowledge with mankind, beyond the approximate date such as was given to the Mayans.
除了把大致的日期告知了玛雅人外，他们并不与人类分享这个知识。
But some say the Mayans knew another secret: the Earth's axis wobbles, slightly changing the alignment of the stars every year.
不过，有人说玛雅人知道另一个秘密：地球的地轴每年微微改变着星星的运行线路。
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 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。
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。
The men with magnifying glasses now say that the world is not about to end-in fact, it seems that the Mayans were predicting something more like a renewal or a fresh start.
现在，石雕上手握圣杯的男子已不再表示终结。相反，玛雅人的预示似乎更接近重生或新生。
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。
Around 680 B. C. by the Olmec civilization, started by Meso-American star charting who were recording astrological form of patterns in the sky and the Mayans Shared this information eventually.
大约在奥尔梅克文明，即公元前680年时，由中美洲以占星术的形式记录天空中星宿的星象图发起，而马雅人最终分享了这一信息。
Pollen and ash remains show that 2000 years ago the Mayans were growing maize with slash-and-burn agriculture in some areas that over the course of later centuries became permanently flooded wetlands.
从遗留的花粉和草木灰可看出距今2000年前生活在那里的玛雅人还在那里种植玉米，虽然种植方式还处在刀耕火种的原始方式，但那里毕竟还有土地。可是在随后的几百年里，这片土地已成了永久性的洪涝之地。
Pollen and ash remains show that 2000 years ago the Mayans were growing maize with slash-and-burn agriculture in some areas that over the course of later centuries became permanently flooded wetlands.
从遗留的花粉和草木灰可看出距今2000年前生活在那里的玛雅人还在那里种植玉米，虽然种植方式还处在刀耕火种的原始方式，但那里毕竟还有土地。可是在随后的几百年里，这片土地已成了永久性的洪涝之地。
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