Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
A journalist visiting a working archaeological site usually can count on a grand tour of the "dig", a tortured plot of ground covered with grid markers, tools and heaps of dirt waiting to be screened.
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6. 表面上的小瑕疵只要刮平就可以轻易修复。再用一块塑料板把补土涂抹均匀。
Minor surface flaws are easily fixed with a skim of filler. Apply the filler smoothly with a plastic spreader.
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7. 用朱家角人的话说，这里是上海的后花园，是大都市背后的一块静土。
The local residents in Zhujiajiao says, This is Shanghai's backyard, a piece of tranquil land behind the metropolis.
Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool, as if a divot from a green golf-links had come sailing in at the office window, but this morning it seemed harsh and dry.
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15. 没有宝藏，吉米所得到的是一块狗骨头，一个洞和填洞的一大堆土。
Instead of treasure, all Jimmy had was a dog bone, a hole, and a big pile of dirt to fill it in with.
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16. 克雷里卓夫身穿土皮袄，头戴羔皮帽，嘴上包着一块手绢，看上去更加消瘦和苍白。
Dressed in a sheepskin coat, with a fur cap on his head and his mouth bound up with a handkerchief, he seemed paler and thinner than ever.
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17. 我到那儿时，只剩下一块疤了，一块赭色的土疤，有二十五个足球场那么大。
By the time I got there, there was only the scar. A scar of ochre earth 25 times the size of a football field.
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18. 我到那儿时，只剩下一块疤了，一块赭色的土疤，有二十五个足球场那么大。
By the time I got there, there was only the scar. A scar of ochre earth 25 ti mes the size of a football field.
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19. 我到那儿时，只剩下一块疤了，一块赭色的土疤，有二十五个足球场那么大。
By the time I got there, there was only the scar. A scar of ochre earth 25 ti mes the size of a football field.
