Between 1850 and 1910 the bison population is thought to have fallen from 60 million to just a few hundred.
人們認為,在1850年到1910年之間,野牛的頭數從6,000萬頭降到只有幾百頭了。
高三英語課文
Unit 13 The USA
?? 句中詞匯解析
從本句中提取的重要詞匯
n. 人口;全體居民;特定[生物]種群;[物]布居;
?? popul人民+ation表示行為、狀態→ 全體居民,人口
"A census of population is taken every ten years."
人口普查每10年進行一次.
近義:people, demographic, demographical
n. 野牛;
"In the year 1700, about 60 million bison wandered freely in North America."
在1700年約有6000萬頭野牛在北美無拘無束地活動.
近義:buffalo
n. 思想;想法;關心;思索;
v. 想( think的過去式和過去分詞);思索;以為;認為;
"Sleep has often been thought of as being in some way analogous to death."
人們常常認為睡眠在某種意義上來說類似死亡。
近義:idea, intent, meditation, mind, notion, pondering
反義:unintentional, unmeant, unwilled, unwitting, unwilling
a. 墮落的, 落下來的, 陷落的\\nfall的過去分詞
近義:ruined, broken, down
n. 百萬;
adj. 百萬的;無數的;
?? 百萬米(mi)再加一(l)粒(li)在上面(on) “密零”(諧音)(一百萬就是1后面有密密麻麻的零)
"The paper got clobbered with libel damages of half a million pounds."
這家報紙被罰以五十萬英鎊的誹謗損害賠償金。