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饮料特殊能力。

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，他们也开始喝可可饮料。

Think about all the skiing, or sledding, or hot cocoa drinking you could do!

想想所有你能做，橇，喝热可可饮料！

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

你喝点可可饮料吧 我是特别为你而做。

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》中一项研究发现，如果老年人连续喝个月高黄酮可可饮料，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。

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，意为由可可种子饮料。

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年研究发现100名年人持续一个月，每天喝两次高可可含量巧克力饮料，其血压下降了4毫米汞柱，毫米汞柱是血压计量单位。

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.

而且实验中使用可可饮料大多数是特黄酮含量较高，即含量在400到1000毫克之间，其选用是特殊加工可可，而不是一般超市巧克力。

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

但几千年前，可可被用来作饮料。

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.

于是我生了一堆火，烧了些水，在山腰上围着篝火，给每个人都泡了一杯热可可饮料。

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饮料，但并不买账， 甚至有人写道这是一种给猪喝苦涩饮料。

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饮料？

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.

中美洲和南美洲玛雅人和阿兹特克人最早种植可可树， 并使用可可豆作苦味饮料。

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

对于阿兹特克人来说，这些可可豆饮料不仅仅是美味那么简单。

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

于是我在马鞍袋里备了材料，可以在篝火旁为每个人煮上一杯热可可饮料。

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

巧克力，者说可可豆， 仍然以液体形式存在，是一种可可饮料， 但已经开始流行起来。

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.

阿兹特克人国王蒙特祖玛二世，据说这位每天喝50杯巧克力统治者，曾为科尔特斯和他手下举办了一场宴会， 宴会上提供了大量巧克力，者说大量这种可可豆饮料。

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

到17世纪初，这种可可豆饮料已经传播到了法国。