A serpent was an important god for ancient Mayans.

蛇是古代玛雅人的重要神灵。

And thanks to my team, Jeremy, Jairbear, Jackie, Jocelyn and Nader, Sophie, McKenna, and Maya.

感谢我的团队，杰瑞米, 捷尔贝，杰克，乔斯林，内德，索菲，麦肯纳和玛雅。

To my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much for all the support that you've given me. I am grateful to them.

我的妹妹玛雅，我的妹妹阿尔玛，我的所有其他的兄弟姐妹们，感谢你们给了我这么多的一切支持，我感谢他们。

These same surviving Mayans were the same people debunking doomsday prophecies and insisted that the calendar meant a new age, not the end of the world.

玛雅后代亲自戳穿祖先预言，称日历预示新纪元，而非世界末日。

NASA's Bill Gerstenmaier says using a private company won't compromise on standards.

NASA的比尔·斯玛雅表示用私人公司不会降低标准。

The Palestinian Tourism Minister Rula Ma'ayah welcomed the Airbnb's announcement.

巴勒斯旅游部长卢拉·玛雅对爱彼迎的决定表示欢迎。

You know, as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, I found Maya Angelou to be incredible inspiring and I love her poems and her poetry.

作为一名联合国妇女亲善大使（UN Women Goodwill Ambassador），我发现玛雅·安吉罗非常具有启发性。我很喜欢她的诗。

A European Commission spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic urged both sides to resolve their differences.

欧盟委员会发言人玛雅·科齐扬契奇敦促双方化解争议。

Find like all of these ancient recipes that date way back to the Mayans.

同这些古老的食谱一样，南瓜的历史可以追溯到玛雅人时代。

No, the weather in NOI Maya is really bad.

对，诺伊玛雅的天气真的很糟糕。

Others, like Maya Angelou, shut themselves away to write.

其他人，比如玛雅·安杰洛，把自己关起来写作。

The Mayas were an ancient people who once lived in Mexico.

玛雅是一个曾经居住在墨西哥的古老民族。

BBC World Service programme Digital Planet met up with project organiser Maya Worman to discuss the importance of keeping the election free from interference.

BBC全球服务节目" Digital Planet" 采访了项目组织者玛雅·沃曼，来讨论保持选举不受干扰的重要性。

But it turns out that the Mayan glyphs were misunderstood.

事实上，人们误解了玛雅石雕上的日历。

And having Maya's poem as an example not only of written word but also incredible spoken word that she brought to it, I wanted to continue to participate in that tradition of hope-making in every single poem that I wrote.

以玛雅的诗为例，不仅是书面的，还有令人难以置信的口语表达，我想在我写的每一首诗中继续发扬这种创造希望的传统。

Ancient Mayans and Aztecs harvested resin from a sapodilla tree.

古玛雅人和阿兹特克人从赤铁科的一种树木中获得树脂。

People long believed that the Maya were still just hunter-gatherers.

长期以来，研究者认为玛雅人是游猎采集部落。

This is, I believe, what the writer Maya Angelou used to do.

我相信这就是作家玛雅·安吉洛过去所做的。

I am a Mayanist and I did my dissertation on the cenotes of Belize.

我是一个玛雅主义者，我的论是关于伯利兹的纪念碑。

Archaeologists unearthed the largest known Mayan figurine factory.

考古学家挖掘出目前已知最大的玛雅雕像作坊。