时间:2019-01-29 作者:英语课 分类:世界小史


英语课

   There are seven days in a week.


  一星期有七天。
  I don't need to tell you their names because you know them already.
  我不必告诉你他们的名字因为你已经知道了。
  But have you any idea where and when it was that the days were each given a name?
  但你知不知道在哪里,从什么时候起日子被取了名字?
  Or who first had the idea of arranging them into weeks, so that they no longer flew past, nameless and in no order, as they did for people in prehistoric 1 times?
  谁第一个将日子归纳为星期,日子就不再像对于原始时期的人类那样一天接着一天地过,没有名字,没有顺序?
  It wasn't in Egypt, but in another country which was no less hot,这件事并非发生在埃及,而是发生在另一个国家,那里的天气也很炎热,but where, instead of just one river, there were two: the Tigris and the Euphrates.
  但那里不是有一条河,那里有两条河:底格里斯河和幼发拉底河。
  And because the important part of that country lay between two rivers,由于那个的国家的重要部分位于两条河流之间,it was called Mesopotamia, which is Greek for the land "between the rivers".
  它被称为美索不达米亚,这个词来源于希腊语,意思是“河流之间”的土地。
  Mesopotamia is not in Africa, but in Asia,美索不达米亚不在非洲,而在亚洲,
  though still not so very far from our part of the world, in a region 2 called the Middle East, in the country we know as Iraq.
  但是离我们的地区并不太远,在一个称作中东的地方,在我们知道的伊拉克境内。
  The Tigris and the Euphrates join together and then flow out into the Persian Gulf 3.
  幼发拉底河和底格里斯河汇合,然后流入波斯湾。
 

adj.(有记载的)历史以前的,史前的,古老的
  • They have found prehistoric remains.他们发现了史前遗迹。
  • It was rather like an exhibition of prehistoric electronic equipment.这儿倒像是在展览古老的电子设备。
n.地区,地带,区域;范围,幅度
  • The students went to study the geology of that region.学生们去研究那个地区的地质情况。
  • It is unusual to see snow in this region.这个地区难得见到雪。
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
学英语单词
air-bag support
Akitio
alpha and beta naphthlamine
asgrown crystal
baclofen
Basque language
Bayel
cast preform
catodic etching
causticized ash
cavitands
clanship
Clematis mandshurica
consubstantialism
Contraction Risk
Cryptophagidae
denver-baseds
dissolved oxygen analyzer for seawater
divestable
doal
Duqi Wan
Dzhuglymskiy Khrebet
El Potrero de Tenavac
environmental protection agency progress report
epizoids
ethno-cultural
Evart
fang chih ku wu
fantin-latour
field emission cathode
flared trousers
FM radio
glycidyl amine resin
half wave voltage doubler
heat radiation pyrometer
herringbone work
hetero-ovular twins
hot laboratory
hyper aggressive
Id al-Adha
immobilize waste
in case that
in the dark
inter-row weeder
International Federation for European Law
kewer
kidney worm
kinoshitalite
konares
laboratory size extruder
manufacturing information control system
medullary trigeminal tractotomy
micro-movement control system
money-lender
multilayeredness
muzorewas
neckars
onware
out-milling
outdoor training
Outfolding
Parafrenal
passive testing
photomosaic
phyllosticta amorphophalli
Physalis alkekengi L. var. franchetii Makino
pigeon's milk
polygraphy
Potentilla anserina
pseudotype
publish the banns
purge cock
Qatari
repsols
restrictionism
say what
SCOPELOSAURIDAE
sea bat
semi-portal bridge crane
short sellers
Sirault
slum area
spastic vasoconstrictive crisis
speed of rolls
split-ticket
st. sebastian c.
straley
supply train
the weft
tickle a person pink
Tondibi
tractus tegmentalis centralis
triazolobenzodiazepine
Uam-ri
ultimate bearing moment
unstathelfast
uranianism
Venetlin
vladimirov
Warhol
wet tissue
wrap around type solar cell