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
2-deoxy-5'-azacytidine
Amphiaraus
appropriate-for-date
ATPR
auto-tracking
backwash water gutter
Ban Don Ngiu
bcf yarn(bulked continuous filament yarn)
big-beat
blunderbuss prescription
C4 dicarboxylic acid cycle
Campos Novos
cancer residue
capital of Spain
cationic
charcoal greys
cillies
closing condition
commercial representative
complex product
corneal macula
cushion idlers
Darvaza
digital complement
directly reduce to
disposition of farm machineries
double sampling plan by attributes
electronical digital computer
elevator pipe cover
Eluex process
engine-room propulsion stand
equalized paired feeding
eviota cometa
extended pyelolithotomy
faintly alcaline reaction
fine correction
gauchos
geomagmatic cycle
give ... ... love
gospel shop
halcyon pileata
heart in one's mouth
history book
houchens
indirect agglutination test
iodisan
isolated limited secondary circuit
jumart
keep up with the times
knife-edge relay
levelling of pumping unit
Locmariaquer
Lomography
maritime frequency band
method of check off
micro-wirecutter
micropolis
mixing sand tank
modified-modified frequency modulation
multiplication of system
nitrothiphenol
ogrism
Oliveira
optical fiber distribution system
paper-chains
peak hold amplifier
periodintal ligament
piles on
PIMI
pneumatic method
Polsham
powder bonded magnet
RCMLA
recreo
Rh-sperrylite
rock associations
schema DDL
searchablest
set beside
sgsrsesesns-s
single-length
SJAB
sodium rosolate
spark quenching condenser
spondee
sub-minister
succeeding lift
suit of clothes
sun myung moons
synchondroses petrooccipitalis
system operation test
tea leaf picker
tweendeck ladder
underwrites
unloading equipment
unstriated fibers
Urup, Proliv
utx
walks through
wax cell
wire off
zigzag spring