?? 新概念英語第三冊
共 1411 條英漢對照例句 · 第 26 頁
Lesson 38 The first calender
But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.
但是，歷史學家企圖重現遙遠的過去可是一項艱巨的任務，
Lesson 38 The first calender
He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available.
他們必須根據現有的不充分的線索進行推理。
Lesson 38 The first calender
Even seemingly insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man.
即使看起來微不足道的遺物，也可能揭示人類早期歷史的一些有趣的內容。
Lesson 38 The first calender
Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons.
歷史學家迄今認為日歷是隨農業的問世而出現的，因為當時人們面臨著了解四季的實際需要，
Lesson 38 The first calender
Recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.
但近期科學研究發現，好像這種假設是不正確的。
Lesson 38 The first calender
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths.
長期以來，歷史學家一直對雕刻在墻壁上、骨頭上、古代長毛象的象牙上的點、線和形形色色的符號感到困惑不解。
Lesson 38 The first calender
The nomads who made these markings lived by hunting and fishing during the last Ice Age which began about 35,000 B.C.and ended about 10,000 B.C.
這些痕跡是游牧人留下的，他們生活在從公元前約35，000年到公元前10，000年的冰川期的末期，以狩獵、捕魚為生。
Lesson 38 The first calender
By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code.
歷史學家通過把世界各地留下的這種痕跡放在一起研究，終于弄懂了這種費解的代碼。
Lesson 38 The first calender
They have found that it is connected with the passage of days and the phases of the moon.
他們發現代碼與晝夜更迭和月亮圓缺有關，
Lesson 38 The first calender
It is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar.
事實上是一種最原始的日歷。
Lesson 38 The first calender
It has long been known that the hunting scenes depicted on walls were not simply a form of artistic expression.
大家早就知道，畫在墻上的狩獵圖景并不是單純的藝術表現形式，
Lesson 38 The first calender
They had a definite meaning, for they were as near as early man could get to writing.
它們有著一定的含義，因為它們已接近古代人的文字形式。
Lesson 38 The first calender
It is possible that there is a definite relation between these paintings and the markings that sometimes accompany them.
有時，這種圖畫與墻壁上的刻痕共存，它們之間可能有一定的聯系。
Lesson 38 The first calender
It seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.
看來人類早就致力于探索四季變遷了，比人們想像的要早20，000年。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
The rough across the plain soon became so bad that we tried to get Bruce to drive back to the village we had come from.
穿越平原的道路高低不平，開車走了不遠，路面愈加崎嶇。我們想勸說布魯斯把車開回我們出發的那個村莊去。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
Even though the road was littered with boulders and pitted with holes, Bruce was not in the least perturbed.
盡管路面布滿石頭，坑坑洼洼，但布魯斯卻一點兒不慌亂。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
Glancing at his map, he informed us that the next village was a mere twenty miles away.
他瞥了一眼地圖，告訴我們前面再走不到20英里就是一個村莊。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
It was not that Bruce always underestimated difficulties.
這并不是說布魯斯總是低估困難，
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
He simply had no sense of danger at all.
而是他壓根兒沒有一點兒危險感。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
No matter what the conditions were, he believed that a car should be driven as fast as it could possibly go.
他認為不管路面情況如何，車必須以最高速度前進。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
As we bumped over eh dusty track, we swerved to avoid large boulders.
我們在塵士飛揚的道路上顛簸，車子東拐西彎，以躲開那些大圓石。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
The wheels scooped up stones which hammered ominously under the car.
車輪攪起的石塊錘擊車身，發出不祥的錘擊聲。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
We felt sure that sooner or later a stone would rip a hole in our petrol tank or damage the engine.
我們想念遲早會飛起一個石塊把油箱砸開一個窟窿，或者把發動機砸壞。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
Because of this, we kept looking back, wondering if we were leaving a trail of oil and petrol behind us.
因此，我們不時地掉過頭，懷疑車后是否留下了機油和汽油的痕跡。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
What a relief it was when the boulders suddenly disappeared, giving way to a stretch of plain where the only obstacles were clumps of bushes.
突然大石塊不見了，前面是一片平地，唯一的障礙只有一簇簇灌木叢。這使我們長長地松了口氣。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
But there was worse to come.
但是更糟糕的事情在等著我們，
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
Just ahead of us there was a huge fissure.
離我們不遠處，出現一個大裂縫。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
In response to renewed pleadings, Bruce stopped.
我們再次央求布魯斯小心，他這才把車停了下來。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
Though we all got out to examine the fissure, he remained in the car.
我們紛紛下車察看那個大裂縫，他卻呆在車上。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
We informed him that the fissure extended for fifty years and was tow feet wide and four feet deep.
我們告訴他那個大裂縫長50碼，寬2英尺，深4英尺。