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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above proof
adaptive delta pulse code modulation
allottee
antimonic
anused
arseno-benzene
atomic boiler
autoregressive moving average (arma)
babyccinos
ball washers
ballooners
bear one's age well
bilomentum
binary scarch
bioventing process
branchiostegus albus
car-freest
chernova
child-woman ratio
chlorosilyl
chordal centrum
chromosome walking
close crossing
coenzyme nucleotide
consumptive cooperation
contourite mound seismic facies
contusus
crumb
Cut.
cutback irrigation
cyberorganizations
darklong
destefani
diprosopic monster
direct data
duty on alcohol
employee theft
end-cutting edge angle
Escherichia aurescens
fann v-g meter
fig
Fransoletite
fum
gaging scraper
genetic fingerprint.ing
giga-amp
good governance
hamon transfer
Hausruck
hermann minkowskis
hiccoughings
high silica brick
ho sh?ng shu
hump marshalling station
hydro coal mining
hylobates agilis
inerrancies
jerk-pump
jilters
joyboy
Karelian Question
kula plate
large batch
leveraged investment company
liquid rewetting front
lucente
mantellid
material requisition register
megachile dinura
mephites
nematodesmata
outlooking
parallelroller
penultimate ventral segment
periosteum elevator
product-pay-back scheme
progagtion tank
reverbatory
Seopa
sexual congress
showe
showin'
soror
squash courts
static gravimeter
suprapatellar bursa
tangentor
transvest
traumatheraphy
tributyrin
two-valued formula
Uglovka
underfall
underpriveleged groups
unvalued policy
Uzal
v. thoracoacromialis
vertical holding range
vidicon camera tube
well-bound
whirlwind clarifier