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最古老玛雅历法:2012年不是世界末日
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the earliest known mayan calendar has been found in an ancient house in guatemala and it offers no hint that the world's end is 1, researchers said thursday.

研究人员上周四称,考古学家在危地马拉的一处遗址中发现了已知最古老的玛雅历法,里面并未提到2012年是世界末日。

rather, the painted room in the 2 complex at xultun was likely the place where the town scribe kept records, 3 computations on the walls in an effort to find "harmony between sky events and sacred rituals," said the study in the journal science.

the 4(象形文字) date back to the ninth century, making them hundreds of years older than the calendars in the maya codices, which were recorded in bark-paper books from 1300 to 1521.

some appear to be the 365-day solar calendar, the 584-day cycle of the planet venus and the 780-day cycle of mars, said archaeologist william saturno of boston university, who led the exploration and 5.

according to saturno, the writing looks like someone's attempt to sort out a very long math problem, as if on a blackboard.

"for the first time we get to see what may be actual records kept by a scribe, whose job was to be official record keeper of a maya community," saturno said.

"the ancient maya predicted the world would continue, that 7,000 years from now, things would be exactly like this," he added.

"we keep looking for endings. the maya were looking for a guarantee that nothing would change. it's an 6 different mindset(心态,倾向) ."

furthermore, there is no sign that the much-hyped myth that the mayan calendar would end in 2012, and with it the world, has any bearing in reality.

all that ended in 2012 was one of its calendar cycles, said co-author anthony aveni, professor of astronomy and 7(人类学) at colgate university.

"it's like the odometer(里程表) of a car, with the maya calendar rolling over from the 120,000s to 130,000," said aveni.

"the car gets a step closer to the junkyard as the numbers turn over; the maya just start over," he added.



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1 zc9z2     
adj.即将发生的,临近的,逼近的
参考例句:
  • the black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。
  • the country is in imminent danger.国难当头。
2 kkrzy3     
adj.提供住宿的;居住的;住宅的
参考例句:
  • the mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
  • the residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。
3 eb6c4d9bcb89539d82c601edd338242c     
乱涂,潦草地写( scrawl的现在分词 )
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4 d786aaeff706af6b7c986fbf102e0c8a     
n.象形字(如古埃及等所用的)( hieroglyph的名词复数 );秘密的或另有含意的书写符号
参考例句:
  • hieroglyphs are carved into the walls of the temple. 寺庙的墙壁上刻着象形文字。 来自辞典例句
  • this paper discusses the fundamental distinctions between the hieroglyphs andforerunner of writing. 英汉象形文字的比较是建立在象形文字具体内涵的基础上。 来自互联网
5 rikzy     
n.挖掘,发掘;被挖掘之地
参考例句:
  • the bad weather has hung up the work of excavation.天气不好耽误了挖掘工作。
  • the excavation exposed some ancient ruins.这次挖掘暴露出一些古遗迹。
6 entirely     
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
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  • the fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • his life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
7 zw2zq     
n.人类学
参考例句:
  • i believe he has started reading up anthropology.我相信他已开始深入研究人类学。
  • social anthropology is centrally concerned with the diversity of culture.社会人类学主要关于文化多样性。
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