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 sudden eruption of anger
African relapsing fever tick
ahu
alticina
arois
arsedine
Ban Bung
bathetical
beiderbecke
biam
breakdown service
Bungu
calicut (kozhikode)
Cassia augustifolia
central administration
classicalist
collybia velutipes (fr.) sing.
complish
Cuddia
degoede
digest of criminal law
dual chain draw bench
electro-magnetisms
end-timers
erards
european recovery program (erp)
flesch
genzel
germiculture
gravity perfusion
great contribution
half-slips
hepatoxic
high-volatility fuel
ideal synchronizing
idealized search service
in at one ear and out at the other ear
inofficious testament
jesse jacksons
kovnas
letdown orifice
marcombe
mercury vapour pump
miller cylindrical projection
Montezuma quail
natural conditioned stimulus
Nelspruit
noneconometric
norm-based
notes on discount
Ntigram
obolized
Orbiniidae
organochlorides
ozzie-and-harriet
PACIA
parity check interrupt
particuler
Peacock(pavo)
penalty factor for rod bow
Phenesin
phiber
pockies
polymethyl methacrylate resin
posteior temporal diploic vein
postmaturity
Renon-Delille syndrome
rich-world
robot calculator
secret prostitution
self-propagating high-temperature synthesis
share of production plan
shuttle bus
Silipur
soybean trypsin inhibitor
spare-ribs
splanchnoptosis
spr
st.john
start-of-record mark
steam-generator lead
stowage charges
strongylocentrotids
successive forest
super-rat
systolic thrill
take warning
tape cassette
tbsp
the meditative mind
theoretical dimension
thomas malthuss
time compression coding
Tiétar, R.
tocquevillian
tsiam
Tuxedo Park
tweers
twin corner
Windach
Yegorlyk
zero kill