时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄中级美国英语


英语课

 


  While on an expedition in western China twenty years ago, some explorers discovered the mummies of atall, red-haired people. Though estimated 1 to be nearly 4,000 years old, the corpses 2 were quite well preserved.

Scientists are excited because these mummies are a link between the East and the West. What were redheadsdoing in China and who were they?

Though the answers to these questions may never be answered with certainty 3, these mummies provide newinformation about the Bronze Age, when men used tools and weapons made of bronze. This was the period betweenthe Stone Age and the Iron Age. As the explorers continue their work, new mysteries are waiting to bediscovered.


 


That old man aged 4 beautifully.

to come of age 成气候,成年     Some writers do not come of age until they are 50.

The Chinese are a peace-loving people.   a people 民族

She is a big-eyed girl.

preserved pork 腊肉

Caucasian 高加索人,白种人(white race)           Mongoloid 蒙古人,黄种人

be made of 性质不变     be made from

wine 水果葡萄酒

The boys enjoys going on a long train journey/trip.

a piece of evidence (不可数)

 



1 estimated
adj.根据估计的
  • She estimated the breadth of the lake to be 500 metres. 她估计湖面大约有500米宽。
  • The man estimated for the repair of the car. 那人估算了修理汽车的费用。
2 corpses
n.死尸,尸体( corpse的名词复数 )
  • The living soldiers put corpses together and burned them. 活着的战士把尸体放在一起烧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Overhead, grayish-white clouds covered the sky, piling up heavily like decaying corpses. 天上罩满了灰白的薄云,同腐烂的尸体似的沉沉的盖在那里。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
3 certainty
n.必然的事,确定的事实,确信,确实
  • I can't say with any certainty where I shall be next week.我不能确切地说下周我在什么地方。
  • I know for a certainty that the company has been bought up.我确实知道公司已经被人收购了。
4 aged
adj.年老的,陈年的
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
学英语单词
?-carotene
accountant's opinion
aft gate
agribiz
Amoxicillin-Flucloxacillin
angulateration
Bath Olivers
beater packing
better-
big-hearted
blood alcohol level
bobbin disk
brake cylinder release valve
bread-and-butter miss
Chalk Marl
chart for superelevation
cheiloses
ciadir-lunga (ciadar-lunga)
Citilat
classification of items
coating film
combination set
comparative literature
consign sth to mothballs
counter swelling berm
counterboring drill press
Crazy Mountains
cutt
deformation load
depth-porosity equation
double lift single cylinder jacquard
drawrod
e-type thermocouple
elastotonometer
electric dipole moment
enriched bucking
flatout
forestand
free-field condition
furloughs
gap-free
gas valve screw
Gauss image point
genus Crex
geologic sketch map
go about with one's head on the air
heterochromatism
hideway
high Power
hotely
hsp40
hydrocarbon content in sediments
idoes
informalism
inlet of surface water
instrument(ation) nozzle
intimas
isochromate
jingleheimer
jockey pulley
judeo
laboratories microscope
law-based
little karoo (southern karroo)
low-light sextant
low-temperature magnetic material
Madame Racamier-type couch
marble-sized
MARFOR
Mosfets
multi-cellular mechanical precipitator
nearly empty
onion smut
optimal delay
osmiridium pen alloy
parabiospheric
paroaria coronata
perpent stones
pound into
powdering machine
Preb.
put the nips into
pyrogram
reconstituters
rib perforator
rotary dump
shareable
sleeve valve
so help me God
solar-constant irradiance standard
spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia
static plate manometer
suicide tourism
Syrian bean caper
Tall Tamir
tests of profitability
theory of foundations of mathematics
toothed ring
transaminations
upshots
veneer edge gluer
wood pulp carrier