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
a fair amount
acuductus
agrimonolide
alpaco
arise from
arthritic atrophy
autolevelling assembly
balcomb
barbarizing
BAYOTENSIN
be filled with despair
belt drive implement
belt-gearing
best-connected
betrend
biosystem
bit maps
bow chicka wow wow
breaking wind
British preference tariff system
cancrisilite
carbonate compensation depth (ccd)
CASS aircraft
Chalchyn Gol
chemiloons
Chenopodium foliosum
clamped plate motion
clustering file
conjugate orthogonal quasigroup
cotton sewing thread on cop
cylindrocladium infestans
Diphylleia
disconcertion
drole
dry screening
dynamic quenching
edit-points
equiweighted design
ericoides
ernolatia moorei
far vision
filter oil
free format
Fremy's salt
gallery deck
gate-to-pin ratio
help you
heterpolar attachment energy
high-reading thermometer
horizontal equivalent
hose bag
house of studies
hypothalamia sulcus
kernel of equal measure
limit-dilution
matromycin
megafortune
micro flip-flop
minimum carload weight
motive type sandslinger
mudkips
nerd-person
number plates
over-strict
ovularia pulchella (cesati) sacc
partes triangularis
Patriarchists
perbromo-ether
peronophythora litchii
physical anthropology
pirateperch
pistone
pluffy hair
program collating sequence
prunus salicinas
Rankine-Hugoniot relation
rattle weeds
read exit
report interval start date
residual variance criterion
rumen atony
SA de CV
scuttle hatch
secondary control station
self-discharging trailer
settle a quarrel
spark-erosion machine tool
steel ... heart
stomatin
sync level
system of idea
taken aboard
tar dolomite brick
tea-bagger
tetramethylarsenium hydroxide
the back bench
the better sort
the rogues' gallery
theologize
two step relay
wifelike
WPC