时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2017年1月


英语课

  23 Television Day: Right or left?

Which of your two hands do you use most? Very few of us can use both of our hands equally 1 well. Most of us are right-handed. Only about five people out of a hundred are left-handed 2. New-born babies can grasp objects with either of their hands, but in about two years they usually prefer to use their right hands. Scientists don't know why this happens. They used to think that we inherited 3 this tendency from our animal ancestors 4, but this may not be true. Monkeys are our closest relatives in the animal world. Scientists have found that monkeys prefer to use ont of thieir hands more than the other-but it can be either hand. There are as many right-handed monkeys as there are left-handed ones. Next time you visit the zoo,watch the monkeys carefully. You'll see that some of them will prefer to swing from their right hands and others will use their left hands. But most human beings use their right hands better and this makes life difficult for those who prefer to use their left hsnds. We live in a right-handed world.



1 equally
adv.平等地;公平地
  • Divide the cake into quarters and share it equally.把蛋糕分成四份,大家平均享用。
  • The blue sky belongs equally to us all.蓝天为人所共有。
2 left-handed
adj.左手的;用左手的
  • She played left-handed to give her opponent a fair chance.她用左手进行比赛以给对手一个较大的机会。
  • If you do most things with your left hand, you are left-handed.如果你用左手做大部分事情,你就是左撇子。
3 inherited
adj.通过继承得到的,遗传的;继承权的v.继承( inherit的过去式和过去分词 );经遗传获得(品质、身体特征等)接替(责任等),继任
  • She had not inherited her mother's forgiving nature. 她没有承袭她母亲的宽厚天性。
  • She inherited a fortune from her father. 她从她父亲那里继承了一大笔财富。
4 ancestors
n.祖先( ancestor的名词复数 );祖宗;原型;(动物的)原种
  • His ancestors had come to America from Ireland. 他的祖先从爱尔兰来到美国。
  • The custom of worshipping ancestors is prevalent among these people. 崇拜祖先的风俗在这些人中是普遍的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
.sys files
acceleration vector of center of mass
activity school
air delivered antipollution transter system
alvearium
anonymising
antigastrin
antiosteoporotic
antiscabious
aspiration thermometre
at the scene of
battle line
be mean to
benzene sulfinyl
beyond the shadow of doubt
bisbenzylisoquinolines
Bol'shoye Padimeyto, Ozero
centre of expansion
cercospora cruenta sacc.
check-writing
chick magnets
commodity composition
communication mix
cool cap
custard apple trees
cuvierian veins (or duct of cuvier)
cva (cerebral vascular accident)
Derkali
dis-equilibrium
distributed microprocessor control system
double volcano
electrically heated undersuit
electronpherogram
encoding algorithm
enlightended marketing
everpeaks
eversion of lower lip
Exton's reagent
feed-through terminal
free variables
function, inverse
gird up
go to arbitration
Gombault's neuritis
group removal
half-round reamer
helium 3B phase
hemocytocagheresis
historic spots
import monopolies
incline grab
inturn
iodine-131
large double-disk grain drill
lebaneses
leveling blanket
local effect
macropore permeability
Mailer, Norman
mcgown
mefford
mineral glycerin
mulchers
orbital-metal plane
outer width of little toe
potassium silicofluoride
priviledg
psychroesthesia
put in writing
quadratic functions
quincade
radhakrishna
rate above
rehearseth
relieving ring
rethrowing
revdanskite (revdinite)
Rutherford back scattering spectroscopy
safety system support features
salamandrite
San Miguel del Monte
schilder-foix(disease)
Selkirk Mountains
service tenancy
squareflipper square flipper
stagnant boundary layer
standard relative luminosity
sub-shock
subcisive
sweepout pattern
symphysoskelia
telemetered seismic network
tetramutant
thrombokinases
tinian
town piper
ultrasonic film thickness gauge
Umm 'Alī, Jab.
vinegared lotus root
volume recovery
were in agreement with
wolfess