Finding fossil man新概念英語課堂筆記

Findingfossilman新概念英語課堂筆記Findingfossilman發(fā)現(xiàn)化石人Wecanreadofthingsthathappened5,000yearsagointheNearEast,wherepeoplefirstlearnedtowrite.Buttherearesomepartsoftheworldwhereevennowpeoplecannotwrite.Theonlywaythattheycanpreservetheirhistoryistorecountitassagas----legendshandeddownfromonegenerationofstorytellerstoanother.Theselegendsareusefulbecausetheycantellussomethingaboutmigrationsofpeoplewholivedlongago,butnonecouldwritedownwhattheydid.AnthropologistswonderedwheretheremoteancestorsofthePolynesianpeoplesnowlivinginthePacificIslandscamefrom.ThesagasofthesepeopleexplainthatsomeofthemcamefromIndonesiaabout2,000yearsago.Butthefirstpeoplewhowerelikeourselveslivedsolongagothateventheirsagas,iftheyhadany,areforgotten.Soarchaeologistshaveneitherhistorynorlegendstohelpthemtofindoutwherethefirst‘modernmen’camefrom.Fortunately,however,ancientmenmadetoolsofstone,especiallyflint,becausethisiseasiertoshapethanotherkinds.Theymayalsohaveusedwoodandskins,butthesehaverottedaway.Stonedoesnotdecay,andsothetoolsoflongagohaveremainedwheneventhebonesofthemenwhomadethemhavedisappearedwithouttrace.ROBINPLACEFindingfossilmanNewwordsandexpressions生詞短語recount/ri'kaunt/v.敘述/'rei'kaunt/再數(shù)一次record/'rek[d//ri'kC:d/第一個(gè)音節(jié)帶重音，名前動后敘述：recount:emotionless重復(fù)describedepict：alittleemotionalnarrate：temporal&spacial根據(jù)時(shí)間或空間順序描述。portray：描述saga/'sa:g[/n.英雄故事描述的內(nèi)容mostlyreal北歐海盜活動的故事legend/'ledV[nd/n.傳說，傳奇unreale.grobinhoodanthropologist/'AnWr['pCl[dVist/n.人類學(xué)家anthrop：人philosophere:philo＋sopher|愛＋智慧＝哲學(xué)家philanthropist:慈善家（對人有愛心的人）anthropology:人類學(xué)帶-gy結(jié)尾的`都是學(xué)科：biology生物學(xué)geography地理學(xué)ecology生態(tài)學(xué)remote/ri'm[ut/n.遙遠(yuǎn)ancestor/'Ansest[/n.祖先an-在前面forefather,forebear，predecessor祖先rot/rCt/v.爛掉leavemerot.＝leavemealongrottodeath.soonripe,soonrotten.decay國家民族逐漸衰亡decompose逐漸衰竭deteriorate關(guān)系逐漸惡化trace/treis/n.痕跡，蹤跡tracetheproblemifollowyourtrace＝ifollowwhereyougopolynesia波利尼西亞poly-多polyandric:awifewithmorethanonehusbandpolygeny:ahusbandwithmorethanonewifeflint/flint/n.燧石flintingheartedfossil/'fCsl/n.化石cobble鵝卵石Notesonthetext課文注釋readof讀到談到：speakof,talkof,knowof,hearofneareast：近東mediterranean,southeurope,northafricfareast非限定性從句，表原因oral(spoken)languageisearlierthanwrittenlanguage.precede:什么在什么之前，不用比較，直接跟名詞counterpart:twothingsortwopeoplehavethesamepositionoral(spoken)languageisearlierthanwrittencounterpart.preserve:保留，保存（腌制）如果句中有only，那后面的表語結(jié)構(gòu)就要用todosth,而不是doingsth.storyteller:講故事的人fortuneteller,palmreader:算命先生migration：移民１）migrantv.migrate:遷移，遷徙migratorybird:候鳥none:nobodypeople＋s民族iftheyhadany:即便是有hisrelatives,ifhehadany,neverwenttovisithimwhenhewashospitalized.findout千方百計(jì)，費(fèi)盡周折＝exploremodernmen:themenwhowerelikeourselveshowever－anywhereyouwant,加逗號but,yet－不加標(biāo)點(diǎn)，onlyatthebeginningofthesentencetherefore－自由so－自由too