4.处于顶峰时:at ones peak
5.华丽的宗教区域:ornate ceremonial areas(ornate=covered with a lot of decorations)
【翻译练习】
①Surveys can cover a single large settlement or entire landscapes.
②In one case, many researchers working around the ancient Maya city of Copn, Honduras, have located hundreds of small rural village and individual dwellings by using aerial photographs and by making surveys on foot.
结构提示:by using aerial photographs and by making surveys on foot作为方式状语修饰located。
③The resulting settlement maps show how the distribution and density of the rural population around the city changed dramatically between AD500 and 850, when Copn collapsed.
④In another case, American archaeologists Rene Million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.
⑤At its peak around AD 600, this city was one of the largest human settlements in the world.
⑥The researchers mapped not only the citys vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.
【参考译文】
①勘察可以只覆盖单独一个大的聚居点,也可以覆盖整个区域。
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