时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2017年1月


英语课

  23 Television Day: Right or left?

Which of your two hands do you use most? Very few of us can use both of our hands equally 1 well. Most of us are right-handed. Only about five people out of a hundred are left-handed 2. New-born babies can grasp objects with either of their hands, but in about two years they usually prefer to use their right hands. Scientists don't know why this happens. They used to think that we inherited 3 this tendency from our animal ancestors 4, but this may not be true. Monkeys are our closest relatives in the animal world. Scientists have found that monkeys prefer to use ont of thieir hands more than the other-but it can be either hand. There are as many right-handed monkeys as there are left-handed ones. Next time you visit the zoo,watch the monkeys carefully. You'll see that some of them will prefer to swing from their right hands and others will use their left hands. But most human beings use their right hands better and this makes life difficult for those who prefer to use their left hsnds. We live in a right-handed world.



1 equally
adv.平等地;公平地
  • Divide the cake into quarters and share it equally.把蛋糕分成四份,大家平均享用。
  • The blue sky belongs equally to us all.蓝天为人所共有。
2 left-handed
adj.左手的;用左手的
  • She played left-handed to give her opponent a fair chance.她用左手进行比赛以给对手一个较大的机会。
  • If you do most things with your left hand, you are left-handed.如果你用左手做大部分事情,你就是左撇子。
3 inherited
adj.通过继承得到的,遗传的;继承权的v.继承( inherit的过去式和过去分词 );经遗传获得(品质、身体特征等)接替(责任等),继任
  • She had not inherited her mother's forgiving nature. 她没有承袭她母亲的宽厚天性。
  • She inherited a fortune from her father. 她从她父亲那里继承了一大笔财富。
4 ancestors
n.祖先( ancestor的名词复数 );祖宗;原型;(动物的)原种
  • His ancestors had come to America from Ireland. 他的祖先从爱尔兰来到美国。
  • The custom of worshipping ancestors is prevalent among these people. 崇拜祖先的风俗在这些人中是普遍的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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actio commodati directa
all-paper
aluminium coating
amino-acylase
Anchorage in Inland Waters
astilbe longicarpa
Athanasian
Benedicks effect
bismarck brown r
bridge wing console
Butisol
capital owner
carrier reference-white level
cat has nine lives
cercomer
chrysotus lividiventris
conchyolins
curd broccoli
dative case
demagnetizing curve
demonology
despiritualized
do a disservice
dry wash
dunellen
false pip
flambes
foresyncline
Fortification Range
fraxinella
fuel oil and lubricating oil compartment
gel permeation chromatography
genus leptinotarsas
ghost insects
gitalen
gossamer spider
Grouz, Jbel
hartshills
high-altitude sampling program
hot-tubber
hypochordal arch
inwind
iron mill
kelpworts
kilometrages
Kinyéma
knobbily
lift-on-lift-off containership
linsidomine
loess-like loam
looks the part
luminance sample
Lyman-alpha radiation
machine-gunneds
Mangla
Markan
metal sheath material
metal toggle frame
midi
non-linear vibration
picocyanobacterium
powder sintering moulding
pulse response width
pylorus
reaction-diffusion
refund offset
reliability of financial records
ring pile
Roberdsmen
rolling bearings
San Miguel
scorpaenid
semi-crawler vehicle
semi-polar link
Shuruppak
sintered point tester
southhampton
Sphingomonadaceae
status anginosus
step-by-step regression
sun-earth relationship
swears by
syphilotherapy
Tahual, Vol.
taluq
thiolic acid
toxic anemia
triliteralism
Tuberaceae
tunable laser oscillator
turbine fuel
unauthorized retention of public money
underfunding
united states army criminal investigation laboratories
uranium-plutonium oxide
vegetable gardening
Vivero
wagon shaker
wave-hopping
whoremonger
with recourse to drawer
yellow yolk