时间:2019-01-29 作者:英语课 分类:世界小史


英语课

   In Africa it is hot, and for months on end it doesn't rain.


  非洲气候炎热,接连好几个月不下雨。
  In many regions very little grows.
  许多地方只能生长少量作物。
  These are deserts, as are the lands on either side of Egypt.
  这片土地是一片沙漠,埃及的左边和右边也是这样的一片沙漠。
  Egypt also gets very little rain.
  在埃及本土也不常下雨。
  But here they don't need it, because the Nile flows right through the middle of the country, from one end to the other.
  但这儿的人不需要雨水,因为尼罗河的一边到另一边正好从埃及的中部流过。
  Twice a year, when heavy rain filled its sources, the river would swell 1 and burst its banks, flooding the whole land.
  一年两次,每逢尼罗河源头下大雨,河流就会涨满,然后漫过河岸,淹没整个埃及的土地。
  Then people were forced to take to boats to move among the houses and the palm trees.
  于是人们就得坐船在房屋和棕榈树间来回行驶。
  And when the waters withdrew, the earth was wonderfully drenched 2 and rich with oozing 3 mud.
  大水退去,土地浸透了水,地面上净是肥沃的烂泥。
  There, under the hot sun, the grain grew as it did nowhere else.
  后来那里在炎热的阳光下长出了其他地方长不出来的丰美无比的粮食。
  Which is why, from earliest times, the Egyptians worshipped the Nile as if it were God himself.
  所以埃及人也就自远古以来一直崇拜他们的尼罗河,仿佛它自身就是神。
  Would you like to hear a hymn 4 they sang to their river, 4,000 years ago?
  你想听一首他们在4000年前就为它而唱的歌吗?

vi.膨胀,肿胀;增长,增强
  • The waves had taken on a deep swell.海浪汹涌。
  • His injured wrist began to swell.他那受伤的手腕开始肿了。
adj.湿透的;充满的v.使湿透( drench的过去式和过去分词 );在某人(某物)上大量使用(某液体)
  • We were caught in the storm and got drenched to the skin. 我们遇上了暴雨,淋得浑身透湿。
  • The rain drenched us. 雨把我们淋得湿透。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.(浓液等)慢慢地冒出,渗出( ooze的现在分词 );使(液体)缓缓流出;(浓液)渗出,慢慢流出
  • Blood was oozing out of the wound on his leg. 血正从他腿上的伤口渗出来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The wound had not healed properly and was oozing pus. 伤口未真正痊瘉,还在流脓。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.赞美诗,圣歌,颂歌
  • They sang a hymn of praise to God.他们唱着圣歌,赞美上帝。
  • The choir has sung only two verses of the last hymn.合唱团只唱了最后一首赞美诗的两个段落。
学英语单词
acreage of farm
adenoma racemosum
Africanises
aileron wheel
Alfheim
arrhythmokinesis
attainant
auto-catalysis
b.phil.
basophilic myelocyte
beachcombers
bell-ringing transformer
Bottenbach
Brasilandia
cardiovasculars
cathodal opening tetanus
chemistry of catalytic process
circulating solids
cohesive failure
consumer variables
CP43
creosote formaldehyde
detainable
dormant account
doubledome
duccio
ducking machine
elastic cone of larynx
endogenous dryness
equal cross-section measurement
extranets
fightable
following punch
guy-line anchor
hexazinone
higher standard of survivability
himalopsyche baibarana
horizontal roll forging mechanical hand
i-cwethen
IBI-C83
indirect proof
input file control block address
intermediate spotted woodpecker
isoureido
jaw-like arm staking machine
lagging edge
lake bed
lamellar cell
laundry truck
leotardss
lepteutypa hippophaes
leucofiseltinidin
light inhibition
Livostin
loculated empyema
maclnnes
macrothele taiwanensis
magistratus
make eyes at sb.
monitoring system microprocessor
mork
mostra
multivalent vaccine
nilekani
ninety-five
optical counterpart
planetocentric constant
play-maker
pleasant dreams
population centres
postevacuation
priceful
Proctor compaction test
Psychotria henryi
quarter cast
quarterboys
radial feed servo
reckless
recoil cylinder closing plug
rerun tower
Skaraborg
snapshot of memory
source language level
spectral radius of a matrix
spiral cavity mould
squared with
standard basic unit
Steel R.
strap
sucktacular
suppurative perifolliculitis
sweetened full cream condensed milk
tadpolish
the death agony
thickness of bearing liner
tighe
total productive capacity
trolley dash
Villasimius
war fund
weapon carrier
woolgrowing