新概念英语第四册:Finding fossil man

2014-05-23 20:38:00来源:网络

  新概念一直被视为英语学习的经典教材,为了让同学们能够更加全面完善的学习新概念英语第四册,新东方在线英语组老师将帮助同学们一起总结知识点。

  Lesson 1 Finding fossil man

  发现化石人

  We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas -- legends handed down from one generation of storytellers to another. These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did. Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from. The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago. But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten. So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first 'modern men' came from.

  我们从书籍中可以读到5,000年前近东发生的事情,那里的人最早学会了写字。但直到现在,世界上仍然有些地方,人们还不会书写。他们保存历史的唯一办法是将历史当作传说讲述,由讲述人一代接一代地将史实描述为传奇故事口传下来。这些传说是很有用的,因为它们能告诉我们以往人们迁居的情况。但是,没有人能把他们当时做的事情记载下来。人类学家过去不清楚如今生活在太平洋诸岛上的波利尼西亚人的祖先来自何方,当地人的传说却告诉了人们:其中一部分是约在2,000年前从印度尼西亚迁来的。、

  New words and expressions 生词与短语

  fossil man (title) adj. 化石人

  recount v. 叙述

  saga n. 英雄故事

  legend n. 传说,传奇

  migration n. 迁移,移居

  anthropologist n. 人类学家

  archaeologist n. 考古学家

  ancestor n. 祖先

  Polynesian adj. 波利尼西亚(中太平洋之一群岛)的

  Indonesia n. 印度尼西亚

  flint n. 燧石

  rot n. 烂掉

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