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翻译 Passage 1 The Mayan Indians lived in Mexico for thousands of years before the Spanish arrived 在16世纪西班牙人到达时，玛雅印第安人已经在墨西哥生活了数千年。 in the 1500s. The Maya were an intelligent, culturally rich people whose achievements were many. 玛雅人是智慧的，文明发达取得了许多成就。 They had farms, beautiful palaces, and cities with many buildings. 他们有农村，美丽的宫殿，建筑林立的城市（有着许多建筑物的城市） The Mayan people knew a lot about nature and the world around them. 玛雅人民对自然与周围的世界了解颇多。 This knowledge helped them to live a better life than most people of that time, 这些知识让他们比同时期的大多数人生活得更好 because they could use it to make their lives more comfortable and rewarding. 因为他们能用智慧使他们的生活更加舒适有益 Knowledge about tools and farming, 关于工具和农耕的知识 for instance, 比如（说吧） made their work easier and more productive.使他们的工作更轻松和多产In ancient Mexico there were many small clearings in the forest. 在古代的墨西哥，深林里有许多的小块空地 In each clearing was a village with fields of corn, beans, and other crops around it. 在每一块空地里都有一座被种植着谷物，豆类和其他农作物的田地包围的小村庄 To clear the land for farms, the Maya cut down trees with stone axes. 为了把地清理出来种田，玛雅人用石斧把树砍倒。 They planted seeds by digging holes in the ground with pointed sticks. 他们把种子播在用尖利棒子在地上挖出的洞中 A farmer was able to grow crops that produced food for several people. 一个农夫所种植的谷物能够为几个人提供食物 But not every Maya had to be a farmer. 但不是每个玛雅人都要成为农夫 Some were cloth makers, builders, or priests.一些是裁缝，一些是建筑工，或者是牧师 The Maya believed in many gods, 玛雅人信奉很多神 including rain gods, 包括雨神 sun gods, 太阳神 and corn gods. 谷神 The people built large temples to honor the Mayan gods. 人们建造大型庙宇来敬奉玛雅众神 Skillful workers built cities around these temples. 灵巧的匠人们在这些庙的四周建立了城市 It was difficult for them to construct these cities, 建造这些城市对他们来说是困难的 because they had no horses to carry the heavy stone they used to build with. 因为他们没有马来运载他们建筑所需的笨重石料 Workers had to carry all of the building materials themselves. 匠人们必须自己来运这些建筑材料 Today, many of these ancient Mayan cities and temples are still standing.今天，这些古老玛雅城市和庙宇之中的许多还屹立于世 Although the cities that t