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Burying each other in these mounds .

彼此互相埋葬在这些土堆里.

Lots of animals build homes for protection-think beaver lodges or termite mounds .

许多动物建立家园保护自己，比如海狸的小屋或者白蚁丘。

Like the mound builders of the ohio region , these tribes , probably influenced by meso-american cultures through trade and commerce , built gigantic mounds as burial and ceremonial places .

像俄亥俄营冢文化部落一样，这些部落可能是通过商业贸易活动受到美国中部文化的影响，建起了庞大的土冢用于殡葬和举行仪式的场地。

Mounds were pyramid shaped with truncated tops .

mounds的形状都如同截取顶部的金字塔。

Shopkeepers sit behind cages full of writhing snakes , tubs with turtles and plastic basins with mounds of scorpions crawling over each other .

店主们坐在装满蛇的笼子后面，还有整盆整盆的龟，一堆一堆的蝎子。