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
?-carotene
adjacet audiochannel
akhavi
albicillas
aldabra atoll
all layers
allelomorphism(allelism)
any one location
ashinoff
asiopodabrus masumotoi
atrophia cutis congenita
bags under the eyes
beam presser shaft bracket
bidirectional optical amplifier
Bilto
birdland
boom out
burial pit
cameralucida
carrier telephone
casteller
catch ... off guard
caustic stricture of esophagus
chiffonnier
chlorinated para red
ciliary band
college-football
colour-photography
concrete pavement machine and equipment
defining postulate
degeneratemodes
discharge-planning
drinking cup
erotopsychopathy
evapotranspirational
exempt person
eye-level shot
filling cutter
finance house base rate
finely-spaced grid pattern
flat bit tong
fuc-
full chord
getas
hand resetting
heliker
Histopin
induction-heated billet furnace
inscribed rectangle
intervarietal
ladle refining
Laramic orogeny
leo the lions
limit in bending
linimentum saponis mollis
Linpack benchmark
locao
longitudinal-bead bend test
mamelon(mameron)
manure bucket
multi-cycle sampling
multiparticle dynamics
non-ionic addition reaction
nonfreezing dynamite
nuclear-families
of quality
oil groove
oil of caoutchouc
Old Castile
olive infused oil
pennant line
peracute
pharmacy technician
phosphorescing
picturings
piratously
protogracillin
reef blasting works
saliferous clay
sandwich class
sediment supply
shipping-world
sinny
space hierarchy
spoonery
St Joseph Point
stabling zone
steam cutting
sympathetic sentence
tandem wells turbine
telstras
toe-caps
Toxocarpus fuscus
transcendental entire function
treatings
trichia erecta
unlove
Villamediana
vinyl ester
water doctor
working documents
Yonghae