时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2015年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

Visiting an Archaeological Site


Lillian: Look at this! I?m going to take this home as a souvenir. 


Bruce: You can?t do that. That might be an artifact of some kind. It belongs to this archaeological site. 


Lillian: It?s just a rock. No one will miss it. 


Bruce: That?s not the point. Everything here should be preserved. That?s the point of doing a careful excavation 1. Everything should be recorded and nothing should be lost. 


Lillian: Take it easy. It?s not like I?m defacing anything. And if they?re trying to preserve this site, why are they doing this dig? Wouldn?t it be better just to leave it frozen in time? 


Bruce: The point is to learn more about the peoples of ancient civilizations who lived here in prehistory. 


Lillian: In my opinion, it?s disrespectful to disturb burial mounds 2 and tombs. They were never meant to be desecrated 3 like this. 


Bruce: Some people would agree with you, but that?s the price we have to pay to add to our knowledge about human history. I really think you should leave that rock where you found it. It could be a fossil. 


Lillian: Do you really think so? 


Bruce: You never know. You could hold in your hand the key to understanding this entire civilization. 


Lillian: Wow, if I take it, I could preserve it for posterity 4


Bruce: What happened to leaving things undisturbed? 


Lillian: That?s before I realized I could go down in history for my own discovery! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 excavation
n.挖掘,发掘;被挖掘之地
  • The bad weather has hung up the work of excavation.天气不好耽误了挖掘工作。
  • The excavation exposed some ancient ruins.这次挖掘暴露出一些古遗迹。
2 mounds
土堆,土丘( mound的名词复数 ); 一大堆
  • We had mounds of tasteless rice. 我们有成堆成堆的淡而无味的米饭。
  • Ah! and there's the cemetery' - cemetery, he must have meant. 'You see the mounds? 啊,这就是同墓,”——我想他要说的一定是公墓,“看到那些土墩了吗?
3 desecrated
毁坏或亵渎( desecrate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The invading army desecrated this holy place when they camped here. 侵略军在这块圣地上扎营就是对这块圣地的亵渎。
  • She shouldn't have desecrated the picture of a religious leader. 她不该亵渎宗教领袖的画像。
4 posterity
n.后裔,子孙,后代
  • Few of his works will go down to posterity.他的作品没有几件会流传到后世。
  • The names of those who died are recorded for posterity on a tablet at the back of the church.死者姓名都刻在教堂后面的一块石匾上以便后人铭记。
学英语单词
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angiosclerotic myasthenia
applictions
appointings
axial force of rail
baseball-related
be alive to
block cipher system
burgeri
cavenger jig
celling rate
cheongsam
chive
chrome bleaching
chrysanthemaxenthin
closing error in coordinate increment
coleosporium clematidis barclay
contact loss
continuous-wave interference
cooperative enterprises
data collection facility
dessert fork
dysluite
electrophoresis force
Epist.
erratic flow
event horizon
excitancy
fillmass chute
flat-platform body
floor-operated crane
goldchip
Gui Xian
half a loaf is better than none
harry
heat in the exterior
hidden reserve
hydrochlorothiazides
i-telle
Indigofera muliensis
informatical
information quantity
itbs
jacky 2,Jacky
kickiest
Kivitoo
lanting
law of independent assortment
lionskin
loading sequence
make system
mohnyins
morpholinobiguanide
moveout correction
myelosclerotic
naturalistic conception of definitions
Neocinnamomum
New Forest pony
non-deterministic space complexity
non-self-luminous object
option buyer
patchlike
peak magnetizing force
phagostatin
phase-shifter
physical loss or damage
pole-plate
powersafes
pump discharge manifold
pushing rod jack
Pyrenaria
quaking puddings
rackingly
radar equipment feeding
residual cake valve
resistivity sounding configuration
Riccitensor
sea monkeys
secondary acid
sensitive plant
separate regenerative chamber
severe heat stroke
short land memo
ssfa
stress-relaxation modulus
sualci venosi
suckled
take care tonight
tender chafing block
thymolytic
timed indefinite shipment
top needle
transition process
transparence diaphaneity
undefeatableness
unionless
unit of budget
valvulotomies
without much further ado
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