新概念英語(yǔ)課件NCE3-lesson38（共26張）

Lesson38ThefirstcalendarNewwordscalendar歷法，日歷solarcalendar陽(yáng)歷lunarcalendar陰歷Todayisherbirthdayaccordingtothesolarcalendar.historian歷史學(xué)家historic(adj.)可名垂青史的，歷史上著名的Ahistoricbuilding/momenthistorical(adj.)（有關(guān)）歷史的thehistoricalbackgroundtothewar歷史背景historicaldocuments/records/research史學(xué)文獻(xiàn)/檔案/研究unique無(wú)與倫比的唯一的，獨(dú)一無(wú)二的Everyone’sfingerprintsareunique.獨(dú)特的，罕見(jiàn)的Auniquetalent(某人、地或事物)獨(dú)具的，特有的ThekoalaisuniquetoAustralia.steadily不斷地SteadyConstant穩(wěn)步的，持續(xù)的，勻速的fiveyearsofsteadyeconomicgrowthRegular穩(wěn)定的，恒定的Hisbreathingwassteady.Asteadyjob/income穩(wěn)的，平穩(wěn)的Heheldtheboatsteady.SteadilyThecompany’sexportshavebeenincreasingsteadily.solely唯一的OnlyShewasmotivatedsolely

byself-interest.她完全出于私利Selectionisbasedsolelyonmerit.選拔唯賢Hebecamesolelyresponsibleforthefirm.CD-ROMvideodiskbewilder令人眼花繚亂bewilder使迷惑，使糊涂Shewastotallybewilderedbyhissuddenchangeofmood.bewilderedHeturnedaround,withabewilderedlookonhisface.BewilderingThereisabewilderingvarietyofsoftwareavailable.各種可供挑選的軟件令人目不暇接deduce推斷，推理Canwededucefromyoursilencethatyoudonotapprove?你保持沉默，我們是否可以據(jù)此而推斷出你不贊成？Wecandeducealotfromwhatpeoplechoosetobuy.從人們選購(gòu)的東西可以做出多方面的推斷scanty不足的Scant(adj.):hardlyany(只用在名詞前)Ipaidscantattentiontowhatshewassaying.我沒(méi)大注意她在說(shuō)什么Thefirefighterswentbackintothehousewithscantregardfortheirownsafety.消防員奮不顧身地返回那座房子scanty(scantier,scantiest)Detailsofhislifearescanty.ascantybikini遮不住多少身體的比基尼泳裝clue線索Thepolicethinkthevideotapemayholdsomevitalcluestotheidentityofthekiller.重要線索you’llneverguesswhoIsawtoday.

Givemeaclue.提示Idon’thaveacluewhereshelives.不知道Don’taskhimtodoit-hedoesn’thaveaclue.笨極了insignificant不重要的aninsignificantdifference微不足道的差別Hemadeherfellinsignificantandstupid.他使她感到卑微愚蠢SignificantAhighlysignificantdiscovery有重大意義的，顯著的Itissignificantthatgirlsgenerallydobetterinexaminationsthanboys.很明顯asignificantlook/smile意味深長(zhǎng)的眼神/微笑shed使流出，瀉V.Thefactoryissheddingalargenumberofjobs.裁員（去除）Thecandlesshedasoftglowonherface.蠟燭在他的臉上映著一層柔光。Sheshednotearswhensheheardhewasdead.灑，流N.Abicycleshed自行車(chē)棚advent出現(xiàn)，到來(lái)，來(lái)臨Theadventofnewtechnology新技術(shù)的出現(xiàn)Adventure冒險(xiǎn)Adventuregame冒險(xiǎn)游戲Asense/spiritofadventure冒險(xiǎn)意識(shí)/精神agriculture農(nóng)業(yè)Industry工業(yè)Service(industry)服務(wù)業(yè)assumption假定，設(shè)想Hisactionswerebasedonafalseassumption.他的行為基于錯(cuò)誤的設(shè)想Anunderlying/implicitassumption設(shè)想，含蓄的假定Itisimpossibletomakeassumptionaboutpeople'sreactions.臆斷人們的反映是不可能的。symbol符號(hào)dot小圓點(diǎn)engrave雕刻Hisnamewasengravedonthesilvercup.Beengravedon/inyourheart,memory,mind牢記，銘記ivory象牙制品Ivorytower象牙塔（指脫離現(xiàn)實(shí)生活的小天地）mammoth（古）長(zhǎng)毛象tusk獠牙，長(zhǎng)牙，象牙nomad游牧民correlate使相互聯(lián)系Thefiguresdonotseemtocorrelate.這些數(shù)字似乎毫不相干Ahigh-fatdietcorrelateswithagreaterriskofheartdisease.高脂肪飲食與增加心臟病發(fā)作的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)密切相關(guān)Researchersaretryingtocorrelatethetwosetsoffigures.研究人員正試圖展示這兩組數(shù)字的相關(guān)性phase月相，天相primitive原始的Primitivetribes原始部落Primitiveman原始人Aprimitiveinstinct原始本能（maternalinstinct）depict描畫(huà)，描繪Theartisthaddepi