Today Mexico City rests on the dry land that used to be Lake Texcoco.

今天的墨西哥城坐落在曾经是特斯科科湖的旱地上。

Mexico City began almost 700 years ago as an Aztec city on an island in Lake Texcoco.

墨西哥城大约在 700 年前作为阿兹特克城市建立在特斯科科湖的一个岛上。

Mexico City began almost seven hundred years ago as an Aztec city on an island in Lake Texcoco.

墨西哥城大约在七百年前作为阿兹特克城市建立在特斯科科湖的一个岛上。

It is said that upon their arrival at Lake Texcoco, so the only information we need here is the name of this Lake.

据说当他们到达特斯科科湖的时候，我们需要的唯一信息就是这个湖的名字。

Under the Aztecs, Tenochtitlan's population was around 400,000 at its peak and was basically just a small but very dense dot within lake Texcoco.

在阿兹特克人统治下，特诺奇蒂特兰的人口在高峰期约为 40 万，基本上只是特斯科科湖中一个很小但非常密集的点。

So we have that they arrived at Lake Texcoco, but it doesn't ask why they decided to settle there or if they saw a sign.

所以我们已经看到了他们到达了特斯科科湖，但这里并没有问他们为什么决定在那里定居，或者他们是否看到了标志。

The Aztec dams across the lake were destroyed in order to turn lake Texcoco salty and to deny the Aztecs inside of any access to clean drinking water.

阿兹特克人在湖上修建的水坝被摧毁，目的是为了使特斯科科湖变成咸水，并使阿兹特克人无法从湖中获得干净的饮用水。

It is said that upon their arrival at Lake Texcoco, they saw an eagle perched on a cactus and accepted it as a sign to settle there.

据说他们到达特斯科科湖的时候，他们看到一只老鹰栖息在仙人掌上，并接受它作为在此定居的标志。

Without the waters of lake Texcoco, the city has been forced to drill deeper and deeper into the below-ground aquifers in her ever-desperate quest for water.

没有了特斯科科湖的水，这座城市不得不在地下含水层中钻得越来越深，以满足城市对水的迫切需求。

13th century, Mesoamerica, which is the south central area of Mexico, Aztecs, Lake Texcoco, 300 years later, population in the millions, the capital city's name, and central Mexico.

13世纪，中美洲，即墨西哥中南部地区，阿兹台克人，特斯科科湖，300年后，百万人口，首都的名字，以及墨西哥中部。

The city didn't exist and in its place was a large lake called lake Texcoco wedged in a large valley surrounded by high mountains and volcanoes on all sides.

这座城市并不存在，取而代之的是一座叫做特斯科科的大湖，它楔入一个被高山和火山包围的大山谷中。

For the Aztecs seven centuries ago, settling on an island in lake Texcoco not only fulfilled an ancient prophecy but made perfect geographic sense with their understanding of technology and limited population at the time.

对于七个世纪前的阿兹特克人来说，在特斯科科湖的一座岛上定居不仅实现了一个古老的预言，而且凭借他们对技术的理解和当时有限的人口，这在地理上也完全合理。

This enormous development in just a hundred years has effectively wiped out any trace of the former waters of lake Texcoco and covered it instead with a lake of concrete and it's wreaked total havoc on the valley's environment.

在短短一百年的时间里，这一巨大的发展已经有效地抹去了特斯科科湖以前水域的任何痕迹，取而代之的是用混凝土覆盖了全湖，这对山谷的环境造成了彻底的破坏。