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They were ball players, they lived in the underworld, and they played ball with the lords of death, regardless of who was playing that game.
他們都是球員，生活在地下，與死神一起玩球。
It re-emphasised how Mesoamericans viewed themselves in the cosmos and in relation to the gods.
這種游戲再次突顯了中美洲人的自我定位及其與神靈的關(guān)系。
So they were playing out a game of gods and the lords of death every time they took to the ball court."
每次球賽都是天神與死神間的較量。
It used to be thought that the losing team was always sacrificially slaughtered, but while this did later occasionally happen, at the time of our belt we don't know what lay in store for the losers.
過(guò)去通常認(rèn)為，戰(zhàn)敗的隊(duì)伍會(huì)被殺死祭神。盡管之后這樣的情況偶有發(fā)生，但其實(shí)我們并清楚，在制作腰帶的年代，人們究竟會(huì)如何處置戰(zhàn)敗的隊(duì)伍。
Mostly the games were an opportunity for a community to feast, to worship and to create and reaffirm social ties.
比賽是舉辦宴會(huì)、祭祀和加強(qiáng)社交往來(lái)的好時(shí)機(jī)。
It's thought that early on this was a game that both men and women could play, but by the time the Spanish encountered the Aztecs in the sixteenth century the game was being played only by men.
有人認(rèn)為，最早的比賽是男女都能參加的，但到十六世紀(jì)西班牙人進(jìn)入美洲時(shí)，它已變成了純男性的比賽。
The ball courts were designed to be sacred spaces in which offerings were buried, so making the building a living entity.
球場(chǎng)也是圣地，祭品埋在地下，使得建筑本身成了有生命的實(shí)體。
The Spanish recognised the religious significance of the courts and of course wanted to replace the old local pagan religion with their new, superior, Catholic one.
西班牙人認(rèn)識(shí)到了這些場(chǎng)地在宗教上的重要性，同時(shí)又想用天主教來(lái)代替當(dāng)?shù)刈诮獭?/div>
It cannot have been by accident that they built their cathedral in what is today Mexico City on the site of the Great Ball Court of the ancient Aztec city, Tenochtitlan.
因此，他們把天主教堂修在了當(dāng)年阿茲特克的特諾奇蒂特蘭城（今墨西哥城）大球場(chǎng)的位置絕非偶然。
But if the courts were destroyed, the game survived the brutal conquest of Mexico and the destruction of the Aztec culture.
但盡管球場(chǎng)已被摧毀或廢棄，在經(jīng)歷了殖民者對(duì)墨西哥的野蠻掠奪及對(duì)阿玆特克文化的粗暴毀滅之后，球賽依然存活了下來(lái)。
A form of it is even played today, called 'ulama', proof, if any was needed, that once a sport embodies national identity as this one does, it has enormous staying power.
一種名叫烏拉馬的球賽今天仍在舉行，這證明了—如果需要證明的話—假如一種運(yùn)動(dòng)與國(guó)家的認(rèn)同感相關(guān)，它的生命力是極為強(qiáng)大的。
