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    Lesson 1 Finding fossil man 發(fā)現(xiàn)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.(暫不提供全文)
    ROBIN PLACE Finding fossil man
    New words and expressions 生詞短語(yǔ)
    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(dòng)后
    敘述：recount : emotionless 重復(fù)
    describe
    depict： a little emotional
    narrate： 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mostly real 北歐海盜活動(dòng)的故事
    legend /'ledV[nd/ n.傳說，傳奇 unreal e.g robin hood
    anthropologist/ '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(duì)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
    leave me rot.=leave me along
    rot to death.
    soon ripe,soon rotten.
    decay 國(guó)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
    trace the problem
    i follow your trace=i follow where you go
    polynesia 波利尼西亞
    poly-多
    polyandric: a wife with more than one husband
    polygeny : a husband with more than one wife
    flint /flint/ n.燧石 flinting hearted
    fossil / ' fCsl/ n. 化石cobble 鵝卵石
    Notes on the text 課文注釋
    read of 讀到
    談到：speak of ,talk of ,know of,hear of
    near east：近東 mediterranean, south europe,north afric
    far east
    非限定性從句，表原因
    oral(spoken) language is earlier than written language.
    precede :什么在什么之前，不用比較，直接跟名詞
    counterpart: two things or two people have the same position
    oral(spoken) language is earlier than written counterpart.
    preserve: 保留，保存(腌制)
    如果句中有only，那后面的表語(yǔ)結(jié)構(gòu)就要用to do sth,而不是doing sth.
    storyteller: 講故事的人
    fortuneteller, palmreader: 算命先生