查询词典 Mexica

The violent irruption of an alien threat is dramatised by the armour and rapier of Pedro de Alvarado, the bloodiest of the conquistadors, against which the Mexica's previously lethal wooden broadsword studded with obsidian blades looks puny.

然而，戏剧性的变化出现了，身披铠甲、手持利剑的最为血腥的殖民者阿尔瓦拉多象征着野蛮的殖民侵略。而一直以来致命的墨西卡武器——镶嵌有黑曜石的木质大砍刀看起来是如此的微不足道。

The centrepiece is a teocalli, a massive votive sculpture in the shape of a temple platform, built in 1507 to mark the end of a 52-year cycle in the Mexica calendar.

整个展览的中心是一座古代大型祭祀神庙的雕刻，雕刻成神殿平台之形。这座建于1507年的神庙用来标示古墨西哥历法中52年周期的结束。

While many city-states, kingdoms, and empires competed with one another for power and prestige, Mexico can be said to have had five major civilizations: The Olmec, Teotihuacan, the Toltec, the Mexica and the Maya.

很多城邦国家，王国和帝国在争相夺利的同时，墨西哥可以说有五个主要的文明：奥尔梅克，迪奥狄华肯，托尔特克，阿兹提克和马雅。

KELLY: Wow. I feel sorry for the Mexica . But it's good for us.

凯莉：哇，我真是替墨西哥人感到遗憾，但是这种情况对我们是有利的。

This is the Mexica ruler at the height of his power, a god among gods.

这就是蒙特苏马，处于权力巅峰期的墨西卡的统治者，他是众神之神。

He just has a talkative friend came from Mexica.

身边只有一个絮絮叨叨的墨西哥朋友。

And it smacks of political correctness to refer to Moctezuma as "elected"(he was chosen by and from the Mexica royal family).

展览抨击了认为蒙特苏马是&选举&出来的政治正确态度（他是从墨西卡皇室中挑选出来的）。

Moctezuma and the Mexica were predestined to defeat, not least because they behaved according to their own code in which warfare was a quasi-religious ritual.

蒙特苏马和墨西卡帝国是注定要失败的，尤其是他们以自己的方式来把战争看成了一场准宗教仪式。

What's interesting about this alternate history is not only the cultural contrast between the two cultures (the traditionalist Imperial China versus a Mexica whose religion is based on human sacrifice - a source of several chilling moments) but also that both civilizations, despite their ability to travel through space, have relatively low tech cultures.

这正是这个替代的历史有趣的是，不仅在两种文化之间的文化对比（帝国中国的传统主义与一Mexica其宗教对人的牺牲的基础-数源冷的时刻），而且这两个文明，尽管他们有能力旅行通过空间，相对低科技文化。

Two codexes, drawn by Mexica artists, suggest—but do not prove—that his death was arranged by the Spaniards.

而来自墨西卡艺术家绘制的两个手稿则暗示——虽然没有得到证实——西班牙殖民者杀害了蒙特苏马。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失