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》
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abraded coal particle
aerosology
Amplexocarinia
architect's scale
atheroemboli
Becquerel, Alexandre Edmond
bifarius
biological therapy
black fur
botrylle
brieva de cameros
bumper-sticker
cabalistically
can-annular combustion chamber
clinocoris
cock gobblas
color deviant
conclusion of the business
convection oven
coupling capacitor potential dev-ice
cristae phallica
cylindrachetids
diarsenate
docu-
domestic animal feeding
dry limestone process
dryfine
ducks in a row
electrocapillary effect
Elmer Leopold Rice
exclusive intent
exoadaption
external bruning ram
external self-determination
external wiring diagram
F scale
factory resets
financial category
forcipomyia (lasiohelea) pungobovis
friandise
genus iguanas
genus Millettia
gladiatorlike
global dimension of ring
hand seeder unit
heterotypic division
homeless people
hyetal map
hygieists
I-n-Rabir
ice warning
ill-prepared
indicating potentiometer
infrared counter-measure
intelposts
ion polishing
isangoma
Khmitevskogo, Poluostrov
kopytoff
lamp test
lavatur
lighting it up
marroquin
Marvelen
match colors
men-of-war
millbridge
minimal
morphosedimentary
operable
organization model
osteolites
over-kind
overcontrol
oversea company
Paederia cavaleriei
phymatorrhysin
play readings
polyether ester thermoplastic elastomer
polyq
post-adolescents
potential energy
preassessed
proctostasis
rallina fasciata
rapid scanning interferometer
relieving-tool
remedied
rough wave effect
rubidium iododichloride
saved by the bell
secondary credit
Segalstad
storage island
syndrome of exuberance of liver fire
tear drop balloon
test duty
the shiznit
Thikozol
travel way
tynecastles
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