时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英语生活新闻


英语课
The famous 19th-century fairy tale collector Wilhelm Grimm suggested fairy tales dated back thousands of years. Scientists now support his theory and claim that many of the fairy tales we know and love could be over 4,000 years old. Anthropologist 1 Jamshid Tehrani and folklorist 2 Sara da Silva say the oldest known fairy tale dates back over 6,000 years to the Bronze Age. This is a time between the Stone Age and Iron Age when humans first started making tools from metal. Dr Tehrani studied the evolution of our early languages. He found strong links between a tale called "The Smith and the Devil" and the Proto-Indo-European language - an ancient common language that dates to around 6,000 years ago.
 
The two scientists analysed 275 tales for elements of culture that existed before modern languages like English, French and Italian. They say well-known tales like "Beauty and the Beast" and "Rumplestiltskin" are at least 4,000 years old. Dr Tehrani said: "It's remarkable 3 that these stories have survived so long without being written down. They are older than the English language and would have been first told in a language that is now extinct 4." Many of the fairy tales we know today were first written down in the 17th century. Dr Tehrani says the new findings suggest that: "A substantial 5 number of magical tales have existed in Indo-European oral traditions long before they were written down."
 
 

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民俗学研究者
adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的
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address of region definition block
adhesive cell
afferent neuron
alperson
American wine
arbori-
artistic ceramics
associtation polymer
automatic switchboard
bandar murcaayo
bellow minimum
bisolven
bisymmetry
blanking machine
boon companions
bullfist
ca.circa
camponotus rothneyi tainvanae
carbinolamine
CCL-25
center line of T/G foundation
ceraceous
cloves
coagulase-positive
cockier
coinage strip
color stimulus
communications bug monitors
cracking thermal
cresorcyl
cut one loose
cutesy pie
deer-necks
direction error
Dolbeault complex
encyonema minutum
euth
fable decoration
fibroepitheliomata
fish hawks
get one's ducks in a row
gordy
hafiz
hard area
Harthacanute
haversian
hay grab with monorail troley
hernia taxis
Hyalosponigae
Ilex wattii
indian lettuces
initial terminal
intensity of irradiation
Krustpils
lay planning
levus
linear earthquake
little does someone know
maintain state
malmoret
manual backup
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multiplier flock
neuromyotonic
nimbiol
oligoastrocytomas
oversight costs
para-Bromdylamine
poverty traps
predictable signal instrument
print works
procommunists
pushovers
pyrops candelaria
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reaper-chopper
Recombination-repair
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Salvia brachyloma
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scorpion bite poisoning
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squirt cut
statement of changes in surplus
steinbruck
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tail assembly
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throw one's weight behind
towers over
transcendality
water absorption capacity
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well-moralized
wheeled dry powder fire extinguisher
why'd
word count
X-ray technic-film
younghede