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
Acoyapa
aelurophilia
ammino compound
antiferments
antigen-free diet
base rates
Chaetoseris macrantha
Cherdaklinskiy Rayon
chrominance cancellation
coaster wagons
coeliac plexus
Crocuta crocuta
cycletouring
debt-redden
deduct from the salary
dendrophoma mori
deposito
Dettol
diffusus
disc rotor
disconsecrates
double make contact
downgauges
easefulness
enteroplasty
epilobium palustre l.
erycin
Esperanto
estropiated
etcher's needle
fire services
flash a look at
fondacaro
full-floating bearing
gaussistor
general overheads
general specification
griseolutin
haemodilutions
hardstones
haunted house
high performance computing
highway exit
holometabolous development
imaginaries part
in harbor
in-the-trenches
incogitantly
indexed file load
inside casing
interword arithmetic
intraepidermal carcinoma
keypads
local track
minimum stable capacity
minipresses
Monoceros Loop
Moshi, R.
mouth mirror
Nipponese
non reversible
nursed
oner-
park ave.s
pencil holder
Philitas of Cos
pinocle
polymorphic lambda-calculus
possible maximum loss
powder feed
preretail
prevention of burglary
privacy subsystem
program documentation
protospondylous
resonance frequency indicator
ribbon checks irrigation
sassons
semigraphic control panel
Shukyrkol'
silves
staphylomycin
the first second reading
thermal theory
tire gauge
torremolinos
Trachydium roylei
train crew dormitory
transport responsibility system
turing basin
unidentified material
Upshur County
urico-
valerianol
volation
water soaking
weak isospin
weft fork holder
were-wolf
woodholes
xylofuranoses
zoomie