They heard them speak about the special powers of the cocoa bean drink.

他们听到阿兹特克人说起可可豆的特殊能力。

When the Spaniards came to Mexico in the sixteenth century, they started drinking cacao too.

16世纪西班牙人来到了墨西哥，他们也开始喝可可。

Aren't you gonna drink your cocoa? l made it specially for you.

你喝点可可吧 我特别为你而做的。

The word 'chocolate' comes from an Aztec word for a drink made from the cacao seed.

“chocolate”一词来源于阿兹特克语，意为由可可种子制成的。

But thousands of years ago, cacao was used to make drinks.

但几千年前，可可被用来制作。

For the Aztecs, these cacao drinks were about more than just being tasty.

于阿兹特克人来说，些可可豆不味那么简单。

Sitting in a squad car with a thermos full of cocoa?

坐在个警车里， 保温瓶里还装满了可可？

By the start of the 17th century, this cacao drink had spread to France.

到17世纪初，种可可豆已经传播到了法国。

And so I had stuff in my saddlebags to make everybody a cup of hot cocoa around a bonfire.

于我在马鞍袋里备了材，可以在篝火旁为每个人煮上一杯热可可。

The Spaniards tasted the cacao drink, but weren't convinced, with one even writing that it was a bitter drink for pigs.

西班牙人品尝了可可豆，但并不买账， 甚至有人写道一种给猪喝的苦涩。

Chocolates, or rather cacao, was still in its liquid form, a cacao drink, but it was starting to take off.

巧克力，或者说可可豆， 仍然以液体形式存在，一种可可， 但已经开始流行起来。

And most of the cocoa drinks in the experiments were specially made to have high levels of flavonoids—between 400 and 1000 milligrams—using cocoa that's processed differently than regular supermarket chocolate.

而且实验中使用的可可大多数特制成黄酮含量较高的，即含量在400到1000毫克之间，其选用的特殊加工的可可，而不一般超市的巧克力。

The Mayans and Aztecs in Central and South America were the first to cultivate cacao trees and use the cacao beans to make a bitter drink.

中洲和南洲的玛雅人和阿兹特克人最早种植可可树， 并使用可可豆制作苦味。

So I built a fire, and I boiled some water, and I made everybody a cup of hot cocoa out there on the side of that mountain, standing around a bonfire.

于我生了一堆火，烧了些水，在山腰上围着篝火，给每个人都泡了一杯热可可。

For example, a 2014 study in Nature Neuroscience found that older adults did better on a memory task, and had increased blood flow to particular memory centres in the brain, if they'd had a high-flavonoid cocoa drink for three months.

比如 2014《自然神经科学》中的一项研究发现，如果老年人连续喝三个月高黄酮可可，会在记忆力测试中表现得更好，并且脑部记忆中枢血液供给会增加。

For example, one 2015 study found that 100 adults who drank a high cocoa chocolate drink twice a day for one month had a drop in blood pressure of around 4 millimeters of mercury, which is a measure of pressure.

例如，一项2015年的研究发现100名成年人持续一个月，每天喝两次高可可含量的巧克力，其血压下降了4毫米汞柱，毫米汞柱血压的计量单位。

The king of the Aztecs, Montezuma II, our 50 cups of chocolate a day ruler, reportedly threw a banquet for Cortes and his men that included vast amounts of chocolate, or vast amounts of this cacao drink.

阿兹特克人的国王蒙特祖玛二世，据说位每天喝50杯巧克力的统治者，曾为科尔特斯和他的手下举办了一场宴会， 宴会上提供了大量的巧克力，或者说大量种可可豆。