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.
    But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten. So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first‘modern men’ came from.
    Fortunately, however, ancient men made tools of stone, especially flint, because this is easier to shape than other kinds. They may also have used wood and skins, but these have rotted away. Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without
    trace.
    ROBIN PLACE Finding fossil man
    New words and expressions 生詞短語
    recount /ri'kaunt/ v.敘述/ ' rei'kaunt/ 再數(shù)
    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
    migration ：移民１）migrant
    v. migrate:遷移，遷徙
    migratory bird:候鳥
    none: no body
    people＋s 民族
    if they had any: 即便是有
    his relatives,if he had any,never went to visit him when he was hospitalized.
    find out千方百計(jì)，費(fèi)盡周折＝explore
    modern men :the men who were like ourselves
    however－anywhere you want ,加逗號(hào)
    but,yet－不加標(biāo)點(diǎn)，only at the beginning of the sentence
    therefore－自由
    so－自由
    tool:小工具
    instrument:實(shí)驗(yàn)器械
    equipment:設(shè)備
    shape:成型；教育，改造
    may also have:表推測(cè)
    peel:果皮
    leather:皮革
    hide:獸皮 cowhide:牛皮
    without (any) trace:無影無蹤
    ２）immigrant