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4. The city was built on a lake
这座城市曾经建造在一个湖泊上
It's hard to imagine now, but much of thesprawling concrete jungle that now makes up Mexico City was once a large lake. The Aztecs constructed a massivecivilization there, with Tenochtitlanserving as the capital. That city, which started out on an islandand expanded to include reclaimed parts of the lake, thrived until the Spanishconquest. After winning the battle for control of the area in 1521, Spaniardsdestroyed Tenochtitlan and built Mexico City on top of itsruins, using canals and roads from the Aztec city as the basis for newstreets and eventually draining the lake. But they didn't entirely erase the past.That's made for some fascinating ancient finds as Mexico City grew into a modern urbanmetropolis. In 1978, electrical company workers diggingnear the city's central square came upon an Aztec relic. That led toarchaeologists unearthing ruins of the Templo Mayor, an Aztec temple that's nowa popular tourist destination in Mexico City.
现在很难想象，现在的墨西哥城在从前有很大一部分都是湖泊。阿芝特克人曾在这里建造了一个文明社会，首都定在特诺奇谛特兰城。那座城市首先是从一座岛屿开始发展开来的，后来填埋了部分湖泊，城市得到扩张，一直繁荣昌盛，直到西班牙人入侵。在1521年赢得战争控制该地区后，西班牙人摧毁了特诺奇谛特兰城，并在废墟之上建立了墨西哥城，以原先运河和道路为基础，西班牙重新建造了新街道，并最终抽干了这个湖泊。但他们并没有完全抹除过去。随着后来墨西哥城成为现代化的大都市，那些古老的建筑成了一大亮点。1978年，电力公司的工人在城市中心的广场挖掘时发现了一个阿芝特克遗迹。这就是阿芝特克大庙的废墟，现在已经成为墨西哥城的一处热门旅游景点。
