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
abroken
accession identifier
agrotechnician
amphiploidy
Ardamu silk
arsphenamized
asynchronous operator
automatic measuring equipment
baroclinic rossby wave
beta ray spectrum
brooding mania
candida ( monilia ) albicans
celiadelphus
chacoan
changeover button
characteristic conductance
cherish life
cider-apple
clean bomb
common isdn application programming interface
contina
continuous core oven
coronamen
cyclohexyl
Delco-Maraine brake
detachment of vitreous
dientomophily
document library
duster
eastneys
enkvist
es-
fit(formation interval tester)
fragrant orchid
frog
fuel tank selector valve
glass extrusion process
Go word
gradient background
gusset angle bar
Hamming weight
hemisotids
hexameteric faces
hoist with lifting tongs
IFC International Finance Corporation
indirect holding fastening
injection mold
johannsens
joint mouse
leading questions
leblanc
limited wars
lixiviate
lupara
Lüdersfeld
Managed Print Service
marine knot
maximum allowable deflection of tray column
method of manufacturing
Mordant Black T
nasal spina
non-fat
nonassertion
orchid pink
p-band
paetz
paleornithology
parchable
pathomete
PCU
positive displacement grout pump
prayering
professional body
prosodifications
psychochemistry
radioactive synthesis
remainder of distribution
Rhyniaceae
second level message
sedenes
silver needle
sley
social partnership
stripping polarography
sugar dissolving plant
SUPO
suppressed inflation
surface-finish analysis
surfboarder
Süssen
Talibanesque
tax on house
the extreme penalty
the sack
thumbshotting
trivial metric
uncontrollable cost
vapor pressure isotope effect
wall-lights
weather message
word processing equipment without provision
wrong'd