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
a rope of pearls
acoustic stratigraphy
agro-chemicals
aminoacethydrazide
anilinephthalein
antitetanic serum ATS
appositeness
Arakkonam
attristing
autoretinoscopy
awmer
bachelor pads
beergarita
bethan
BWPA
casteleiro
charterers
chondrodite
collecting canal
commitmentphobe
Cord Sets
cyberpsychologist
cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer
decuria
demand writing
depositary bonds
DG method
digiplot
discrete fourier transform (dft)
dogmatory
double u butt weld
due date
electric-hoist
employer's credit associations
erda
experimental digital television encoder
fasciculus anterolateralis superficialis
ferropyrin
front porches
fully functional dependent
genus Testudo
heaven-born
homoeostatic
illuminating mark
instantaneous neutron pulse
instrument flight,instrument flying
invitation letter
ionization event
knife Thiersch's
Kolkatan
Lanatabs
latent criminal
lower instruction parcel
macroscopic measurement
malyon
Maxwell's fish-eye
memory exchage
metastatic carcinoma of bone
metonymizes
molding apparatus
more positively
needle density
negroponte
nitrogen transport processes
Nocardia rangoonensis
normoglycaemias
nymphaea capensis
Pahang River
pasini and pierini's atrophoderma
passive impedance
peroxidaseantiperoxidase complex method
photon engine
piping hanger
Plexus venosus pterygoideus
plug pipe tap
profite
Ptychomitrium
quasi-Christian
Quincke's meningitis
reproducing loss
rest-room
reticula
Rhiptoglossa
rumex crispus crispus
Scutellaria guilielmii
shawbubbe
side ward lunge standing
sodium antimonylthioglycollate
spait
Stilbostr
temporary filter
timaliidaes
tono
toxicological test
trade in transaction
transferable contaminant
trigly
trueloves
turkish music
wake blockage effect
zinc carbonate
Zymomonas