It was probably the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at its height; its giant walls and terraces seem as if they have been cut naturally in the continuous rock cliffs.(它可能是印加帝國(guó)全盛時(shí)期最輝煌的城市建筑，那巨大的城墻和梯田好像是在連綿的懸崖絕壁上自然形成的一樣。)

The Inca Empire was discovered by a Spanish conquistador called Francisco Pizarro, accompanied by about 169 Spanish soldiers.(印加帝國(guó)被一個(gè)名叫弗朗西斯科·皮薩羅的西班牙征服者發(fā)現(xiàn)，隨同他的還有約169名西班牙士兵。)

The famed capital of the ancient Inca Empire, Cusco has served as a travelers' mecca for hundreds of years.(庫(kù)斯科是著名的古印加帝國(guó)的首都，幾百年來(lái)一直是旅游勝地。)

The Inca scribes (known as armantus) used the quipu (knotted ropes) to record and store information about the immense holdings of the vast Inca empire.(印加抄寫(xiě)員們利用結(jié)繩文字記載遼闊印加帝國(guó)大量財(cái)產(chǎn)的資料。)

Machu Picchu was constructed around 1450, at the height of the Inca empire, and was abandoned less than 100 years later, as the empire collapsed under Spanish conquest.(馬丘比丘建于1450年前后，與印加王國(guó)在相同高度上，在之后的不到100年時(shí)間里，西班牙的入侵導(dǎo)致了帝國(guó)的瓦解，這座古城也成為廢墟，遭到了遺棄。)