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 squire of the pad
a-smear
abition
all the times
ancylostoma tubaeforme
autacoid substance
band of
basic account
biglet
bonne nuit
Bukusu
burkholderia mimosarum
burst into the room
calisaya
chelipoda fuscicornis
chief series of subgroups
Click Through Rates
climate-warming
climatic discontinuity
copycord scanner
corpora atretica
creative conflict
deagnostic message
die pantograph machine
dikamali
diriclinal chimera
durazzoes
efficient production structure
El Campillo de la Jara
electrical desalter
Emolphor
fever strip
file reference function
gaplessly
Gay Plague
genus eriogonums
graphic chart
Hantu, Sungai
haul girl
hexynoic acid
histo-differentiation
illumunance
industrial planning
ironfoundry
JavaServer Pages
jeh
kovich
koy
loop closure
Mandler filter
manufacturing loss
maximum loading rate
metalized ceramics
microheaters
Midlothian
missetting
Mūjūmbār
neo-keynesians
non-consumable melting
non-vanishing vector
nuclear dualism
packing loaded stock
Papaver heterophyllum
Peremptory Challenges
petal bundle
phosphor coating
piggyback twistor
podophylin
poppy bee
price markup equation
quillais
radfordia affinis
radius gauge
reference station
relay driving spring
reserve requirement system in foreign currency
retirement of bond
scolloped
shadow page
slipping cut
solenaster
solenoid inductor
solid state phase changes
stands
submerged jetty
Susono
system of simultaneous equations
tape-controlled
test quality level
ticky boxes
torulitactiles
transfer note
transistor-level
trustworthily
Tulbagh
turned on
urethrostomy
vivipation
waist oar
Wiggins
winch with dynamic braking
zoeal