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
accusors
affixable
Ahiri
amomum costatum roxb.
Angouleme
antitank weapon
aperture disk
autonomous guidance
azabicyclane
beach race
begonia cathagana hemsl.
behlendorf
binding state
bklr.
black mercurial lotion
blood-bird
bush hedge
campo cerrado
catalepsy.
Champsecret
churidarss
circulating fund analysis
coat color of livestock
completely unimodular matrix
consorce
cutting board
dealcoholizes
diaminoethane
diamondknurled
differential photographic method
direct laying
distributed processing system
distributive pairing (grell 1962)
divisional instruction
draught area
Erwin Rommel
euronithopods
fixating
Foucaultgram
geochemical chart
girdle of inferior extremity
Guaicuru
gulisano
hamster wheel
harbour-master
Heloniopsis acutifolia
homogeneous hydrogenation
hynder
imaginary sample points
intraspe cies
kardel
krawiec
last bus
Lissac-et-Mouret
low-level formatting
maintaineth
message writer
molasses medium
monitor task
multichannel applicative signal analyzer
Nagāhān
narcisms
narcostimulant
nocturnal convection
non-associative algebra
normal phase
North Muskegon
nuclear envelop
once and again
oriented section
oxyh(a)emocyanin
petiolares
photoblog
president johnsons
PRP (pseudo-random pulse)
ransom moneys
Riddlesburg
ring rot bacteria
rokebies
Rosstal
rotary prime mover
saturated fatty acid
sea ladder
shard-born
shoulder rib
skip-cage combination shaft
sodium phenyl-arsonate
soupers
Spirorhynchus sabulosus
sporodermis
sulfanitran
taiwanobryum robustum
tectibranchia
terreno
things with defects
to pillage
typhosis
underinvests
undiapered
unlimited shelf life
Vedic Sanskrit
water spray nozzle