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。
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aalens
adelard
advincula
aerodynamic configuration of vehicle
AJCCS
arack
atoris
bilateral Laplace transform
brink(s)man
buy insurance
Calophanoides alboviridis
cardio-electric potential
centre-fire
conditional implication operation
creatine kinases
DENTAC
direct seeding forestation
disposer
drug pathogenesis
Eaton-Lambert syndrome
economy energy
edge homomorphism
error of tilt
estimate of population standard deviation
extremely-low frequency (elf)
fawen
fractional centrifugation
fucky fucky
gaaps
genus nartheciums
geo-blocking
geoxene
glaciomarines
Guanchong
guronsan
gyeonggi b. (kyonggi-man)
Gylden method
h.t.
halalahs
have a monkey on a up the chimney
hebdomadary
high burnup fuel
illegitimatizes
instrumental optics
iterative transfer constant
lencophenga (lencophenga) nigrinervis
Lophiiformes
magnetoresistive head technology
malvastrums
marshalling sequence
Meconopsis discigera
moment balance
msdo
multi-unit control valve
murinest
Myasul
naah
negative thixotropy
nidget
nonagglomerating
nonbeautiful
not to be named on the same day with
oil sheet
open reserve
Phillips, Stephen
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power supply variation
pressure main
primary distribution main
pyrolator
range-of-balance error
red-rock
reroofing
retrogreen
rubus floseulosus focke
saleswoman
samians
sargants
satsuma luteolella
secondary emission cathode
sentinel-loop
Shakespeare I.
sintered liner
ski-plane
span rope
spectroscopic measurement
spun-refined iron
starting S-memory address
subscriber tv
sulfophenylate
taking someone out
tergiversated
tinamid
TjC
total dissolved solids (tds)
Trachystemon
transition mechanism
Urban farmer
Whitehead's operation
woodfuel
yoshino
zygomatic branch