时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2009年


英语课

 The ancient city of Machu Picchu attracts visitors from all over the world. The most famous archaeological site in Peru, this Inca ruin floats among the clouds, 2,000 feet above the Urubamba River that runs below, and 7,700 feet above sea level. Historians believe the Inca began building Machu Picchu around the 1450s, but because they left no written records behind, no one knows exactly what their purpose was.


 
"The Inca royal family would go there for different kinds of ceremonies, and we do know that the Incas had a very strong ritual element there. There are some who think it maybe was just a retreat—they went there to have a nice, you know, retreat from all the hubbub 1 of the capital city of Cusco."
 
But within a hundred years after the Inca began building this impressive city, they started to abandon it.
 
"Machu Picchu is probably abandoned or began to be abandoned already before the Spanish came. And that's because around 1525, there was a civil war."
After the Spanish arrived seven years later in 1532, the Inca deliberately 2 burned the forest around Machu Picchu.
 
"They burned it because the foliage 3 regrows and completely covers it and made it virtually impassible."
 
Perhaps thanks to the Inca's efforts to hide the city, the Spanish never found Machu Picchu. It was lost to the wider world until geographer 4 Hiram Bingham rediscovered it in 1911. Over the last century, archaeologists have learned that Machu Picchu was also the hub of a large network of Inca sites.
 
"So the picture of Machu Picchu’s being an isolated 5 ruin on this ridge 6 is really incorrect. There are a whole series of sites that lead to it."
 
This series of sites has been described as a pilgrimage trail, but the Inca's ultimate plan for these places remained a mystery.
 
"It's part of a big system that was being built up by the, by the Incas. And it wasn't finished. We know there were things that were abandoned. So we don't know ultimately what that would, that whole area would have looked like, if the Incas did inhabit it, say, for another hundred years."
 
In 1983, Machu Picchu was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. As archaeologists learn more about what happened here, new questions continue to arise, guaranteeing that Machu Picchu will remain a place of mystery for years to come.

n.嘈杂;骚乱
  • The hubbub of voices drowned out the host's voice.嘈杂的声音淹没了主人的声音。
  • He concentrated on the work in hand,and the hubbub outside the room simply flowed over him.他埋头于手头的工作,室外的吵闹声他简直象没有听见一般。
adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地
  • The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
n.叶子,树叶,簇叶
  • The path was completely covered by the dense foliage.小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。
  • Dark foliage clothes the hills.浓密的树叶覆盖着群山。
n.地理学者
  • His grandfather is a geographer.他的祖父是一位地理学家。
  • Li Siguang is a famous geographer.李四光是一位著名的地理学家。
adj.与世隔绝的
  • His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
  • Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
n.山脊;鼻梁;分水岭
  • We clambered up the hillside to the ridge above.我们沿着山坡费力地爬上了山脊。
  • The infantry were advancing to attack the ridge.步兵部队正在向前挺进攻打山脊。
学英语单词
acted-out
Alloa wheeling
ambiens
ampere-wire
associated employers
atheists
bimetry
bleaching of cloth
bogus company
brown thrush
bus-bar chamber
butorphanol
caabas
calamy
canephora
cardinal marks of buoyage system A
Ch'ing
chromosome banding technique
cochon
consolidation
corkscrew arteries
cornetfishes
coureurs de bois
cycle counting method
denuded area
dermatopathy
duplex telegraphy
dysprothrombinemia
egg-masses
eia-485
electroplating
ethavan
executive system routine
fiduciary standard
flux bath dross
gas light
genus Ovis
gil
h1-receptor
hand-held console
Hollerith code
iliac bursae
insinuatingly
intracted
jayawijaya
k.k.k
Kelly L.
key-lime
Kohler
line of equal pressure
linear discrimination classification
lip-strap
long-headedly
lose confidence
make ill blood between persons
mass rapid transit railway
mass stroage dump & verify programme
melampsora laricis hartig
metalumina
microcavitation
midlike
moulded breadth
multi-station system
muscular relaxation
nanoconstricted
no load friction
nonoperate value
notched member
nozzleless solid rocket motor
of-lofte
old codger
one out of two system
orangeless
Ostium trunci pulmonalis
overburden potential
percutaneous cystostomy
pezdek
platedthroughhole
pressure riser
radiolike
rakhmons
Residual Interest
sensor transfer function
single carriageway road
soliton bifurcation diagram
start a hare
Stournaras
supernerds
third position
tin glaze
Toru-Aygyr
tricksters
trochanteral
Tupper Lake
UET
Urolophus
ventral heart
wall-stone
walter de la mares
water immersion test
wristband
wulfgar