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
abridged scientific literacy instrution
acetylene welding set
amaurosis fugax
aminoacylhydrazine
amnisos
anodic coating
anterior pit
anticipative object
aquatic products
arsenohauchecornite
assumption of
beta blackout
bread-crust bomb
c-frame forging hammer
camera gun
Catholic Churches
cladonia tundra
claudet
compass deviation
composting material
cruck
Cucumis melo L. var. conomon Makino
defaultable
dependances
discrete product
duoscopic receiver
duration of flood tide
effective ionic radius
elect to do
electric propulsion switchboard
empirical validation
environmental complexity
final utility
floor finish
flotation analysis
flux creep
forge furnace
formal litigation of a case
fukue (gotosi)
full load efficiency
fusellal tissue
genetically engineered microorganism ecology
glass silvering
gross payload
heating of machine
high fluid potential belt
hypothetical construct
in the very flush of youth
integrating measuring instrument
internet peering bandwidth
interstitial absorption
isocapnia
issuing administration
junk sciences
Kenneth Bancroft Clark
kerf
kinboshi
local linear interpolation
main working load
McNaughton rules
micklewhite
modular system program
nocardorubin
nosewise
NPPNG
obstetrical delivery
one-third-octave
oospararenite
ordering department
orlicks
Overland Common Point Cargo
paleosols
pannus pan
PDQ
penal reform
Permo-Pennsylvanian
picnicker
plaster bandage
preresolves
Price Skimming
pseudo-balance
Quebrachos
radiation balance
rednose
refloorings
regulant
reservoir simulation
salembere
scale of brokerages
sea tourist area
separable topological space
separate data processing
spherical antenna
terins
toll-cable network
tripartita
two-stroke cycle single-acting
vectorial combination
water-line model
withycombes
writers' paralyses
zanon