时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:美国英语听力80篇


英语课

[00:05.15]Many people are visiting a museum in Chicago, Illinois to see ancient documents called the Dead Sea Scrolls 1.

[00:15.44]The world famous writings will be shown at the Field Museum of Natural History until the middle of June.

[00:23.98]Museum officials say it is the most extensive exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls in North America.

[00:32.10]Officials in Israel lent the documents to the museum.

[00:36.94]The Dead Sea Scrolls were written in what is now Israel more than 2,000 years ago.

[00:45.22]They represent the oldest surviving copies of the Old Testament 2 of the Bible.

[00:51.38]The Jewish and Christian 3 religions consider the Bible to be holy.

[00:56.84]The scrolls were discovered in 1947 near Oumran, along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea.

[01:05.75]Experts say some of the writings describe the laws and beliefs of the people who wrote them.

[01:14.45]Many experts believe the writers were from a group called the Essenes, who lived in Qumran.

[01:21.58]Other experts believe the scrolls were written in Jerusalem

[01:25.94]and hidden in caves near Qumran to protect them from invading Roman forces.

[01:32.73]The Field Museum exhibit contains parts of fifteen of the ancient documents.

[01:39.37]They include five documents that have never been shown outside Israel.



1 scrolls
n.(常用于录写正式文件的)纸卷( scroll的名词复数 );卷轴;涡卷形(装饰);卷形花纹v.(电脑屏幕上)从上到下移动(资料等),卷页( scroll的第三人称单数 );(似卷轴般)卷起;(像展开卷轴般地)将文字显示于屏幕
  • Either turn it off or only pick up selected stuff like wands, rings and scrolls. 把他关掉然后只捡你需要的物品,像是魔杖(wand),戒指(rings)和滚动条(scrolls)。 来自互联网
  • Ancient scrolls were found in caves by the Dead Sea. 死海旁边的山洞里发现了古代的卷轴。 来自辞典例句
2 testament
n.遗嘱;证明
  • This is his last will and testament.这是他的遗愿和遗嘱。
  • It is a testament to the power of political mythology.这说明,编造政治神话可以产生多大的威力。
3 Christian
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。