时间:2019-02-21 作者:英语课 分类:美国学生人类历史


英语课

   Chapter 3


  第三章
  Prehistoric 1 man
  史前人类
  Prehistoric man begins to make things for himself.
  史前人类开始为自己制造工具
  Early man did not know what time meant.
  早期的人类不懂得时间的含义,
  He kept no records of birthdays or wedding anniversaries or the hour of death.
  他们从不记录生日、结婚纪念日或者悼亡日,
  He had no idea of days or weeks or even years.
  也不理解什么叫日、月、年。
  But in a general way he kept track of the seasons for he had noticed that the cold winter was invariably 2 followed by the mild spring
  可通过一种普遍的方法,他们跟上了季节变迁的轨迹。他们发现,寒冷的冬天过后,温暖惬意的春天总是翩然而至;
  that spring grew into the hot summer when fruits ripened 3 and the wild ears of corn were ready to be eaten
  随着春天慢慢地变成炎夏,树上的果实饱含浆汁,野麦穗迎风招展,等待收割;
  and that summer ended when sudden gusts 4 of wind swept the leaves from the trees and a number of animals were getting ready for the long hibernal sleep.
  然后夏天结束,阵阵狂风卷光树上的叶子,一些动物已准备好漫长的冬眠了。
  But now, something unusual and rather frightening had happened.
  这时,一件不同寻常的恐怖事情发生了,
  Something was the matter with the weather. The warm days of summer had come very late.
  它与气候有关。暖和的夏日姗姗来迟,
  The fruits had not ripened.
  果实无法长熟。
  The tops of the mountains which used to be covered with grass now lay deeply hidden underneath 5 a heavy burden of snow.
  那些本来覆盖着绿草如茵的群山之顶,现在却为一层厚厚的积雪所笼罩。
  Then, one morning, a number of wild people, different from the other creatures who lived in that neighbourhood, came wandering down from the region of the high peaks.
  随后的一天早上,一群野人突然从山上摇摇晃晃地冲下来。他们与住在山脚下的居民很不相同。
  They looked lean and appeared to be starving.
  他们瘦弱干枯,看起来已经挨饿好久。
  They uttered sounds which no one could understand.
  本地的居民听不懂他们卿卿咕咕的语言,
  They seemed to say that they were hungry.
  可看样子;他们好像在说自己想吃东西。
  There was not food enough for both the old inhabitants and the newcomers.
  本地的食物不足以同时养活老居民和新来者,

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。
adv.不变地,始终如一地,总是
  • A unity invariably tends to break up into different parts.统一体总要分解为不同部分的。
  • We always invariably support him.我们一直始终不变地支持他。
v.成熟,使熟( ripen的过去式和过去分词 )
  • They're collecting the ripened reddish berries. 他们正采集熟了的淡红草莓。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The branches bent low with ripened fruits. 成熟的果实压弯了树枝。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
一阵强风( gust的名词复数 ); (怒、笑等的)爆发; (感情的)迸发; 发作
  • Her profuse skirt bosomed out with the gusts. 她的宽大的裙子被风吹得鼓鼓的。
  • Turbulence is defined as a series of irregular gusts. 紊流定义为一组无规则的突风。
adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣,里面套着一条连衣裙。
标签: 人类历史
学英语单词
absolute promise to pay
acid-citrate-dextrose solution
actinomycetaceaes
algebraic hypersurface
antidermatitis
asymmetric ratio
automatic changeover
automatic gyropilot
be straight with sb
bioisolation
biological agency
blocked money
bring sb. to book for sth.
Brissot
brughierons
carbonised
cell link
Chateauneuf-de-Randon
circling approach
cirsectomy
closed mission
continuous file
cotyloid
cylindrical layer winding
diving current
Dixie Union
evidential matter
examplars
facies inferior pyramidis
fibre crystallinity
Finacle
fixed mold
Flinders Island
Fukuhara
garbage feeding
garnet type structure
gradate vein
Grafenberg ring
head bag
helmport
Hermansverk
hoary golden bushes
hometeams
hopologists
impastes
ionophoresis
isometric virus
jerri
labor protection payment
luminousnesses
Mac-Lane system
malasada
meeter
momentum-threshold error correction model (m-tecm)
Mouthier-en-Bresse
multiplexer/demultiplexer
oracularities
paly booty
parsing time
pay back period
performance benchmarks
photonephelometer
plain steel
prolated
publicly certified acknowledgment
recoil detector
reprecipitates
reproduction felling
rhabdoblennius nitidus
ring field
rocking apparatus
roush
season-crack
seignioresse
sells on
sikula
Sissomicin
sluice door
small amplitude theory
snifter valve
source statement library
starting difficulty
stream surface
strong current bus
temperature control amplifier
testicular feminization
thickener tunnel
to be brief
to settle an account
token passing
train container
transaction reconciliation
turbine room
unattestable
Undulated Beam injector
unipolar group
United Fruit Company
Urantoin
Viola kunawarensis
webfeet
worked consistency
Zarphatic