时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2010年(十)月


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Egyptian authorities say archeologists have found an ancient tomb that suggests another necropolis is yet to be discovered near the Great Pyramids of Giza. The burial chamber 1 is that of a high priest from the Old Kingdom period, whose job it was to maintain the mortuary cult 2 of the pharaoh Khafra. Susan Yackee spoke 3 about the find with VOA's Middle East correspondent Elizabeth Arrott in Cairo.


Yackee: What can you tell us about the importance of the discovery?


Arrott: Well, first, it turns out is a very beautiful tomb. It's carved right into the cliff face of the Giza plateau, and leading up to it, there's a series of limestone 4 tunnels – what the archeologists are describing as almost like a maze 5 to get to the burial chamber.? And inside there's some very well preserved paintings, detailed 6 works showing daily life of the time.


The other thing that has the teams very excited is the idea this may be just the tip of a necropolis – or burial ground – that they didn't know about before.


Of course, this is near what's arguably the world's most famous tribute to the dead – the Great Pyramids, and in recent years they've made some wonderful discoveries, including a village for the builders of the Pyramids, that suggests they weren't slaves, as most people had thought, but rather but a highly organized, obviously, group of paid laborers 7 that built the pyramids.


Yackee: Can you tell us about the man whose tomb they discovered?


Arrott: His name is Rudj Ka and he had a number of positions in the royal court.? His main job, it seems, is that he was purification priest for the king Khafra.? He's the Old Kingdom ruler who has the second biggest pyramid at Giza – actually it's the one that looks the highest, it isn't, it's just that it's built on a slight elevation 8.


Rudj Ka probably lived many years after Khafra, and he would have been responsible to keep up all the rites 9 and rituals tied to the cult of Khafra in the afterlife.? These kind of positions were thought out well beforehand – rulers would set up endowments to make sure they continued to be properly worshipped well beyond their time on earth.


Yackee: You mentioned paintings in the walls of the tomb. What do they show?


I think one of the things they show is that being a priest in Old Kingdom Egypt was probably a pretty nice job to have.? You see Rudj Ka hunting and fishing and out on boats in the marshes 10. There are also paintings of him and his wife and they seem to be a rather attractive couple. You see them in front of an offering table full of all sorts of gifts -- cows and geese and bread.


So these paintings and the construction of the tomb itself -- these are all the kind of details that help archeologists and historians fill out the amazing complexities 11 of Egyptian life 4000 years ago.

 



n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所
  • For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说,牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
  • The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
n.异教,邪教;时尚,狂热的崇拜
  • Her books aren't bestsellers,but they have a certain cult following.她的书算不上畅销书,但有一定的崇拜者。
  • The cult of sun worship is probably the most primitive one.太阳崇拜仪式或许是最为原始的一种。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.石灰石
  • Limestone is often used in building construction.石灰岩常用于建筑。
  • Cement is made from limestone.水泥是由石灰石制成的。
n.迷宫,八阵图,混乱,迷惑
  • He found his way through the complex maze of corridors.他穿过了迷宮一样的走廊。
  • She was lost in the maze for several hours.一连几小时,她的头脑处于一片糊涂状态。
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
n.体力劳动者,工人( laborer的名词复数 );(熟练工人的)辅助工
  • Laborers were trained to handle 50-ton compactors and giant cranes. 工人们接受操作五十吨压土机和巨型起重机的训练。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. 雇佣劳动完全是建立在工人的自相竞争之上的。 来自英汉非文学 - 共产党宣言
n.高度;海拔;高地;上升;提高
  • The house is at an elevation of 2,000 metres.那幢房子位于海拔两千米的高处。
  • His elevation to the position of General Manager was announced yesterday.昨天宣布他晋升总经理职位。
仪式,典礼( rite的名词复数 )
  • to administer the last rites to sb 给某人举行临终圣事
  • He is interested in mystic rites and ceremonies. 他对神秘的仪式感兴趣。
n.沼泽,湿地( marsh的名词复数 )
  • Cows were grazing on the marshes. 牛群在湿地上吃草。
  • We had to cross the marshes. 我们不得不穿过那片沼泽地。 来自《简明英汉词典》
复杂性(complexity的名词复数); 复杂的事物
  • The complexities of life bothered him. 生活的复杂使他困惑。
  • The complexities of life bothered me. 生活的杂乱事儿使我心烦。
学英语单词
Aethoxide
all-up service
Amphelikturus
annule
applier
archduke ferdinand
array representation
automatic-reset thermal protector
average weight
basilar fibers
brake-shoe guide pin
chavicol
chill car
clash with
compensated appropriation of state funds
compressive nappe
coprohematology
cylinder reamer
deeney
dibromoethanes
diesel motor regulator
displase
distributed parameter generator
do sth out of vanity
domestic pigeon
Donnan dialysis
dried milk cake
effects of risk
electrotechnical porcelain products
empathic, empathetic
fibrocartilaginous ring
Fluoroplast-4
forward line of troops (flot)
galvanometry
Gel-type battery
general loan and collateral agreement
genus Lomogramma
glycolate pathway
Great Bend
half-spiralcurve cut
Helicorbus
heoven
high temperature metering pump
home beacon
Horton number
hosetails
incrustments
interlayer ions
Ishkashim
jezve
knock home
labyrinth ischemia
Lactuca undulata
leaf fat
ligustrum vulgares
Lindhorst
loriann
macrophoma japonica passerini
maximum thread diameter of circular die sharpened
mercatory
mid-day data file transfer service
military aeroplane
mittes
mofid
much given to speculation
n.c.b. boring tower
non-tumorigenic
Odontites serotina
Oligostachyum sulcatum
partial constraint
phragmata
pitryosporum
polygonal soil
power inverters
Pozuelo de Aragón
press telegram
pummyse
reflex water gage
remeans
ritualisations
rousted
seam check
shin ghar
short-range modem
side well coring
silanating
solid-on
steamtowns
synergio factor
Tarija, R.
tie in knots
Tilia henryana
Toirano
transient short-circuit time constant
uasp
uncasks
uncyclopedia
vector inner product
vertebrosternal ribs
vertical cavity surface emitting laser (vcsel)
yearbook
yellow-blue