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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a superman
accept a bet
aging population
air flux
alcoholytic splitting
algebraic language
analysis of assets changes
anti-pollution device
anti-prostitution movement
apoplectic cicatrix
arch-frame press
armoured wood
Aspron, C.
asthmatic vaccine
Ballbach process
be presumed
blood albumin
boesman
bony fishes
building heating entry
butadiene elastomer
Caesar's wife ought to be above suspicion.
Ceel Dhaab
ceria
condenser transmitter
cresylate
CSSB
Davao City
departmental accounting
depleted area
double-base phototransistor
dual-rate spring
eccle-grass
ectopic contraction
ethylanthracene
expertise
face wheel
Gibbs Seamount
glass coating
glucoheptoascorbic acid
Gowers' intermediate process
gpea
grens
gypsoide
half-ruined
hastily
honesty
hopland
Impatiens amplexicaulis
in someone's wheelhouse
ingenta
intercarotid artery
J factor
Kylar
large angle boundary
laser-gated
lever blockin device
macrobrachium formosense
magnetic surface recording
Manchester City
maneuvering device
Maritimes, Alpes (Marittime, Alpi)
metaphysicist
meteoritical
microfarad meter
milibis
non selling
nonequalities
Nǎdlac
oceanward
off-line UPS
Ohne
out-suffer
pee off
perimedullary phloem
peritrophic mycorrhiza
Phenacodontidae
phenaeal
pleater
precoding
R-5-P
rail splice
recycled waste-process
Schizachyrium obliquiberbe
snorefest
snow remover with snowplough
sodium hydrogen arsenite
solid geometry
SPFG
Stick it right there!
stogs
subpyloric lymph nodes
Sundstrand pump
suppurative chorioiditis
thesaurize
throw money away
track plotter
trichlorethanol
uncontinued
vacuum tube arrester
valve-point performance curve
wear green