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。
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a used car
A.L.R.
accomodation deck
adult type tuberculosis
age cohorts
alkylarylethoxysulfates
all-in wrestling
Alpha Virginis
amanita amantadine
angkar
arteria temporalis intermedias
Asterococcus canis
bailee
ball tube mill
balto
beg leave
benzapas
best linear index
bidaxe
biodiesel fuel
bisymmetries
brymus
call request signal
cascarilline
cation exchange paper
chaplainships
conducted
confocal strip laser resonator
conservatisms
constructive receipt (of income)
cross-fertilise
dairy machinery
diagnostic pneumothorax
diatomaceous
dirac picture
distributed environment
dry sipping
Eberthella talavensis
emigrator
enwrapping
Fahralloy
filling for groyne
first fundamental form
flooded gas well
free of ground rent
free-convection cooling
general import
homogentisates
humic andosols
jelly sinter
Kenadsa
Kwanzaas
l-10 life
laser assisted chemical vapor deposition
legal interests
lesbophobic
limonia (thrypticomyia) apicalis majuscula
macro fracture mechanics
magnesane
magnetic-flux test
manhandle
mechanization scheme
meta directing
midred
Minahasa
mintmaster
moringua abbreviata
neuropathology
oil conderser
out-of-step operation
Padana
paraepilepsy
Posey County
primula obcomca hance
quiner
recently
reformed spelling
rights and wrongs
Rorketon
saccharomyces
scanning cycle
sectorized feeder
settingvalue
spell binding
standard RAM
state investment
step-daughter
subaiding
symplectic transformation
SYNON
talbothays
temple viper
thievish look
tightening ring packing
tooth mark
unloading auger clutch lever
uterus parvicollis
vizthink
yaw damper
yeat
zelotic
ZERT