The Mayans, who were good-enough astronomers and timekeepers to predict Venus's position 500 years in the future, deserve better than this.
瑪雅人在天文學(xué)和記錄時(shí)間方面足夠出色。他們在那個(gè)年代就預(yù)言了500年后金星的位置。而值得稱頌的還不僅于此。

Mayan time was cyclic, and experts like Dr. Krupp and Anthony Aveni, an astronomer and anthropologist at Colgate University, say there is no evidence that the Mayans thought anything special would happen when the odometer rolled over on this Long Count in 2012. There are references in Mayan inscriptions to dates both before the beginning and the ending of the present Long Count, they say, just as your next birthday and April 15 loom beyond New Year's Eve, on next year's calendar.
瑪雅人的時(shí)間是循環(huán)的，包括克虜伯博士和科爾蓋特大學(xué)天文學(xué)和人類學(xué)家安東尼·阿韋尼在內(nèi)的專家們說，沒有證據(jù)證明瑪雅人認(rèn)為有什么特別的事情將在2012年“長歷法”一輪回結(jié)束時(shí)發(fā)生。專家們說，在瑪雅人的石刻里，有關(guān)于目前“長歷法”輪回開始和結(jié)束前的日子的標(biāo)識，正像你知道你的下一個(gè)生日和4月15日將出現(xiàn)在明年日歷的新年前夜之后一樣。

So keep up those mortgage payments.
因此，還是接著還房貸吧。