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Ecuador boasts the glories of Quito and, at the Museo Nacional, Hispanic America's greatest collection of pre-Columbian ceramics.
厄瓜多尔引以为荣的是首都基多，国家博物馆收藏着最为丰富的前哥伦布时期的陶瓷。
And museums and restaurants have opened in its historic center, including the refurbished Museo del Oro, which houses pre-Columbian treasures.
博物馆和饭店也在接二连三地开业。包括金色博物馆（Museo del Oro），里面收藏着好多哥伦比亚建国前的珍宝。
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.
马丘比丘又称“古老的山巅”（Old Peak）是哥伦布发现美洲大陆以前的印加古城，位于秘鲁印加圣谷（Urubamba Valley）之上的海拔2430米的山脉之上，靠近库斯科。

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，从表面上看这似乎不那么显而易见,因为在美洲大陆，在哥伦布到来之前-,在“前哥伦比亚美洲-,根本没有任何轮式交通工具存在。
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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.
现在神奇的事情是，如果你去墨西哥,你可以去博物馆,那里有前哥伦比亚墨西哥时代的,带着轮子的幼儿玩具。
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