The first calendar 最早的日歷
Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times. They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily accumulates. What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written word. Films, videos. CDs and CD-ROMs are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have. They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action. But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available. Even seemingly insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man.
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. Recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusk of mammoths. 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. By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code. They have found that it is connected with the passage of days and the phases of the moon. It is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar. It has long been known that the hunting scenes depicted on walls were not simply a form of artistic expression. They had a definite meaning, for they were as near as early man could get to writing. It is possible that there is a definite relation between these paintings and the markings that sometimes accompany them. It seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.
10. Recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.
但近期科學(xué)研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，好像這種假設(shè)是不正確的。
語言點(diǎn)1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:that引導(dǎo)賓語從句，交代indicate的內(nèi)容。
語言點(diǎn)2:indicate的本意是“指出”，在此引申為“發(fā)現(xiàn)”。
11. Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusk of mammoths.
長期以來，歷史學(xué)家一直對雕刻在墻壁上、骨頭上、古代長毛象的象牙上的點(diǎn)、線和形形色色的符號感到困惑不解。
語言點(diǎn)1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:這句話的核心結(jié)構(gòu)是sb.be puzzled by sth.（某人對某事感到困惑不解）。Which引導(dǎo)定語從句，修飾dots,lines and symbols。
語言點(diǎn)2:engrave on的意思是“在…上雕刻”。
12. 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。
語言點(diǎn)1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:who引導(dǎo)定語從句，修飾nomads。Which引導(dǎo)定語從句，修飾the last Ice Age。
語言點(diǎn)2:lived by hunting and fishing的意思是“靠狩獵和捕魚為生”。
Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times. They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily accumulates. What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written word. Films, videos. CDs and CD-ROMs are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have. They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action. But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available. Even seemingly insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man.
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. Recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusk of mammoths. 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. By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code. They have found that it is connected with the passage of days and the phases of the moon. It is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar. It has long been known that the hunting scenes depicted on walls were not simply a form of artistic expression. They had a definite meaning, for they were as near as early man could get to writing. It is possible that there is a definite relation between these paintings and the markings that sometimes accompany them. It seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.
10. Recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.
但近期科學(xué)研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，好像這種假設(shè)是不正確的。
語言點(diǎn)1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:that引導(dǎo)賓語從句，交代indicate的內(nèi)容。
語言點(diǎn)2:indicate的本意是“指出”，在此引申為“發(fā)現(xiàn)”。
11. Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusk of mammoths.
長期以來，歷史學(xué)家一直對雕刻在墻壁上、骨頭上、古代長毛象的象牙上的點(diǎn)、線和形形色色的符號感到困惑不解。
語言點(diǎn)1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:這句話的核心結(jié)構(gòu)是sb.be puzzled by sth.（某人對某事感到困惑不解）。Which引導(dǎo)定語從句，修飾dots,lines and symbols。
語言點(diǎn)2:engrave on的意思是“在…上雕刻”。
12. 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。
語言點(diǎn)1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:who引導(dǎo)定語從句，修飾nomads。Which引導(dǎo)定語從句，修飾the last Ice Age。
語言點(diǎn)2:lived by hunting and fishing的意思是“靠狩獵和捕魚為生”。