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
abating pollution
absolute peltier coefficient
algarroba bean
amblyrhynchus cristatuss
argentophilia
assady
auctive
basic service
biphenanthryl
blank transmission
bridgewasher
candidate gene
centralization of libraries
chlorotic mottle
clear scan
colour schlieren
continuous lightening
contour sheet
cr-edtas
crepidomanes latemarginale copel.
Cynoglossum viridiflorum
darreh-ye bahabad
debate upon
desarde
dorsal digital nerves
dry laminate
elf owls
Eutomil
extremization
Fimbristylis longistipitata
forwearying
Fournier, (Henri) Alian
full-duplex communication line
gotten onto
gripper-shuttle loom
grungesters
hidey-holes
hogge
horizontal circle
hydroxyketone
hypercells
indulge oneself in
initial leader lightning
intestinule
intrageneric
judgmental task
Kalugerovo
Kin, Sungai
ladder-shaped support
lamproschist
landway
life formula
Ligamentum sternoclaviculare anterius
link-man
lophodont tooth
Lukoma B.
magnetohydrodynamics
mahorn
marginal rate substitution
mark card reader
Mehamed
meilman
military toxicant
missing-children
nigg agent
non-activated thinner
parallel curve
phosphorous oxide
power adjusting test
proton-rich nucleus
pseudoorthorhombic
pyridylmethylpyrrolidine
quadrature phase null voltage
responsibility system of hospital president
riemann geometry
second attempt connection
sexual activity
Shicun
shortcake
Spirillaceae
statanpere
streperosity
subangular blocky rock
summarisable
sword-wielding
tatt
temps lev? sur les pointes
tissue repair
transmissivities
treble-fold block
tuff texture
undamned
underlying deposits
valence electron approximation
Valseca
variable-grade channel
viiii
waste away
water supply and sewerage design
Wycliffe
x-ray radiometric method
Zavolzhskiy