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Ecuador boasts the glories of Quito and, at the Museo Nacional, Hispanic America's greatest collection of pre-Columbian ceramics.
厄瓜多爾引以爲(wèi)榮的是首都基多，國(guó)家博物館收藏著最爲(wèi)豐富的前哥倫佈時(shí)期的陶瓷。
And museums and restaurants have opened in its historic center, including the refurbished Museo del Oro, which houses pre-Columbian treasures.
博物館和飯店也在接二連三地開業(yè)。包括金色博物館（Museo del Oro），裡麪收藏著好多哥倫比亞建國(guó)前的珍寶。
Machu Picchu ("Old Peak") is a pre-Columbian Inca city located at 2,430 m (7,970 ft) altitude on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, near Cusco.
馬丘比丘又稱“古老的山巔”（Old Peak）是哥倫佈發(fā)現(xiàn)美洲大陸以前的印加古城，位於秘魯印加聖穀（Urubamba Valley）之上的海拔2430米的山脈之上，靠近庫斯科。

Well, it apparently is not so obvious because in the Americas, before Columbus came-- " pre-Columbian America-- there were no wheeled vehicles anywhere.
好吧，從表麪上看這似乎不那麼顯而易見,因爲(wèi)在美洲大陸，在哥倫佈到來之前-,在“前哥倫比亞美洲-,根本沒有任何輪式交通工具存在。
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Now, the amazing thing is, if you go to Mexico you can go to museums that have children's toys from pre-Columbian Mexico with wheels.
現(xiàn)在神奇的事情是，如果你去墨西哥,你可以去博物館,那裡有前哥倫比亞墨西哥時(shí)代的,帶著輪子的幼兒玩具。
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