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
(storage) location
act of production
afco
alimentary tract smear
anfald
antromesopharyngeal
apostemed
application of auditing standards
applied manufacturing overhead account
Argo basin
atomic population
awaken
backfat
backrer
balance ? trois
baliwick
be wounded
bornyl salicylate
bracteiferous
capnogram
carbon log
cerebropsychosis
chainring
chalcopyrite structure
charinas
chishtiya
contour basin
contributing editor
cry quits
curling tongs
cytodomain
D-glyceraldehyde
decreolizing
domestic content ratio
double-reduction gearbox
effective periodicity
ehes
end of subroutine
felonious
ferrini
first season crop
Flamsteed's number
fluorescent emission crystals
galactitol dehydrogenase
genetic girls
gingle
Gottstein's fibers
H2-blocker
herling
holidic
imidazolidines
incumbent carrier
indication of inspection status
intercooled regenerative cycle gas turbine
interstate commerce act
invests in
iron-oxides
kobresia
lamellibranchiate
large-sized long arm excavator
loxocorniculum tominga
madison-grant
Maxwell-Boltzmann
Mogadouro
monoplegia
mope away
mrite
number of columns per row
octopus bushes
outward-facing
Pavlov pouch
pea green
pelagic clay
petroleum nitrogen bases
Pittenhart
plant electrical consumption
praseodymium nitride
private partss
pro-democratic
probability distribution analyzer
pure-bred horse
Rafferty's rules
rapid convergence
refraction break method
review input
rubidium iodide
semi-automatic valve
semi-diaphanous
slender spiderherb
sorbide
splenaemia
split-ups
strain hardening exponent
subsidiary factor
suntans
surfing the web
toota
torrential flood erosion
turning gland
typhoidal
volens
wayang