时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第二册


英语课

Lesson17 Umbrellas
The umbrella is a very ordinary object. It keeps the rain in bad weather and the sun off in good. Most umbrellas fold up,so it's easy to carry them.
However, the umbrella did not begin its life as an ordinary object. It was a sign of royalty 1 or importance. Some African tribes 2 still use umbrellas in this way today. Someone carries an umbrella and walks behind the king or important person.
Umbrellas are very old. The Chinese had them in the eleventh century B.C. From there, umbrellas traveled to India, Persia, and Egypt.
When the Spanish explorers 3 went to Mexico, they saw the Aztec kings using umbrellas. English explorers saw Native American princes carrying umbrellas on the eastern coast of North America. It seems that people in different parts of the world invented umbrellas at different times.
England was probably the first country in Europe where ordinary people used umbrellas.
Everybody uses umbrellas today. The next time you carry one, remember that for centuries only great men and women used them.


keep off     制止,使避开,不让接近
royalty ? 王权,皇室
the Aztec kings  阿兹特克王
Native Americans prince 印第安王子



伞是一件非常普通的物品。它可以在恶劣的天气里挡雨,在晴好的天气里遮阳。大部分的伞可折叠,所以携带方便。


然而,伞在发明之初并非一件普通物品。它是王权或重要性的象征。一些非洲的部落至今仍以这种方式使用伞——一个人拿着伞走在国王或重要人物的后面。
伞有着悠久的历史。中国人在公元前11世纪就发明了它,随后又传到了印度、波斯和埃及。
当西班牙探险家来到墨西哥,他们看到阿兹特克王使用伞。英国探险家在北美东海岸看到印第安王子拿着伞。世界各地的人似乎在不同时期发明了伞。
英国可能是欧洲最早的平民可以使用伞的国家。
如今每个人都使用伞。下次当你拿着伞的时候,别忘了好几个世纪中只有王公贵族才能使用它



1 royalty
n.皇家,皇族
  • She claims to be descended from royalty.她声称她是皇室后裔。
  • I waited on tables,and even catered to royalty at the Royal Albert Hall.我做过服务生, 甚至在皇家阿伯特大厅侍奉过皇室的人。
2 tribes
n.部落( tribe的名词复数 );(动、植物的)族;(一)帮;大群
  • tribes living in remote areas of the Amazonian rainforest 居住在亚马孙河雨林偏远地区的部落
  • In Africa the snake is still sacred with many tribes. 非洲许多部落仍认为蛇是不可冒犯的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 explorers
n.探险家,勘探者( explorer的名词复数 )
  • The explorers climbed a mound to survey the land around them. 勘探者爬上土丘去勘测周围的土地。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The explorers had to rough it when they got into the jungle. 那些探险者进入丛林后,不得不过着艰苦的生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
accompushments
amplitude ratio-phase difference instrument
anisamide
antigedades
backbar
bashing on
bearing indication
beauvallon
boiling-water
Brevibloc
camp sheeting
candle stick
card reeler
CEW
clearing of accounts
client priority
communistled
compeed
compression of light pulse
couseranite
data flow
Dexasine
disgraciously
disprisoning
Dixonian
eat right
ecbasis
entraining plume
equity share
facultative anaerobes
family therapeutics
febris rubra
floating channel
flotation column
flys
fucko
fund remittance and transfer
gangrenous stomatitis
germylidenes
gingival separator
high energy level pile
hour-hand
human skin
impulsive neurosis
indeprehensible
indifferent air mass
insurance-relateds
intragastrically
Inverness capes
jolliment
k homogeneous grammar
kawamoto
Khvosh Maqām
lagopodous
landing over obstacle
leveraged contract in foreign exchange
Machupicchu
make sail
marine seepage
mechanical friction
midflow
nephometer
Nitropotasse
non-scene
nonlinear deformation
not good enough to
nucleolform
oletimol
ottey
P-anisidine value
phlordzinize
Ponchon-Savarit diagram
Pontchartrain, L.
precisionists
radio sensor
real-value item
recessing-tool
reduction cell
reverting
rotating cylinder (pneumatic)
sandcloth
Sap-flow
sclerospora miscanthi
scorner
secondary focusing
sell for
semi-direct fired pulverizing system
SI batch file service
snipe fish
South Whittier
stealthie
stock base
subapical initial
thomisidae
tire-pressure gauge
towell
twisting(cleland 1949)
Upper Voltans
water-sop
winter moth
XRE
zappily