英语听力：自然百科 圣河之旅 The Nile尼罗河—28
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：自然百科2015年
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Other inscriptions 1 carved into the ancient stones telling a new force travelling out the Nile.-There's a cross here. Times changed. And Christianity came to the shrine 3. In fact, this became a base, from which monks 4 went on missions to the south to convert the Nubians and other tribes to Christianity.
Egypt was Christian 2 for hundreds of years, until Islam swept across North Africa. Today, Egypt is home to almost 18 million Muslims. It has the largest Muslim population in the middle east. But religious strife 5 and political conflict dog this Nile state. Liberal and conservative Muslims are battling physically 6 and intellecturally for the soul of the country. -There is a small but not insignificant 7 group of Islamic fundamentalists in Egpyt. They want to tear temples like these down and destroy them. They want to rid Egpyt of this pre-Islamic past. They think these places are idolatrous. These are some of the greatest treasures of human civilization. Think to tear them down would be obscene, utterly 8 obscene.
（作者）题词( inscription的名词复数 )； 献词； 碑文； 证劵持有人的登记
- Centuries of wind and rain had worn away the inscriptions on the gravestones. 几个世纪的风雨已磨损了墓碑上的碑文。
- The inscriptions on the stone tablet have become blurred with the passage of time. 年代久了，石碑上的字迹已经模糊了。
adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒
- They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
- His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
n.圣地，神龛，庙；v.将...置于神龛内，把...奉为神圣
- The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
- They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。
n.修道士，僧侣( monk的名词复数 )
- The monks lived a very ascetic life. 僧侣过着很清苦的生活。
- He had been trained rigorously by the monks. 他接受过修道士的严格训练。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.争吵，冲突，倾轧，竞争
- We do not intend to be drawn into the internal strife.我们不想卷入内乱之中。
- Money is a major cause of strife in many marriages.金钱是造成很多婚姻不和的一个主要原因。
adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律
- He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
- Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
adj.无关紧要的，可忽略的，无意义的
- In winter the effect was found to be insignificant.在冬季，这种作用是不明显的。
- This problem was insignificant compared to others she faced.这一问题与她面临的其他问题比较起来算不得什么。