时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2015年


英语课

You, here! You,barbarian! Here!


They make up 30% of Italy's population, yet virtually no written accounts of their lives are left behind. They are treated as a commodity rather than people. The story is pieced together from the archaeological evidence, and suggests this building was a market place for human livestock 1. The auction 2 is a defining moment for a slave. It can be the difference between a relatively 3 comfortable existence and a hellish one. But on this day, no one, slave or owner, will be spared from the hell which is about to come. When the mountain erupts some slaves will die still chained. This man will be found where he fell unable to run away. The ash from Mt. Vesuvius smothers 4 everything. It captures people fleeing, cowering 5, dying in the face of an unfolding disaster. As the ash hardens, it solidifies 6 the shapes of its victims’ bodies, long after their flesh is gone.


 

1 livestock
n.家畜,牲畜
  • Both men and livestock are flourishing.人畜两旺。
  • The heavy rains and flooding killed scores of livestock.暴雨和大水淹死了许多牲口。
2 auction
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
3 relatively
adv.比较...地,相对地
  • The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
  • The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
4 smothers
(使)窒息, (使)透不过气( smother的第三人称单数 ); 覆盖; 忍住; 抑制
  • Mary smothers her children with too much love. 玛丽溺爱自己的孩子。
  • He smothers his hair with grease, eg hair-oil. 他用发腊擦头发。
5 cowering
v.畏缩,抖缩( cower的现在分词 )
  • He turned his baleful glare on the cowering suspect. 他恶毒地盯着那个蜷缩成一团的嫌疑犯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He stood over the cowering Herb with fists of fury. 他紧握着两个拳头怒气冲天地站在惊魂未定的赫伯面前。 来自辞典例句
6 solidifies
(使)成为固体,(使)变硬,(使)变得坚固( solidify的第三人称单数 ); 使团结一致; 充实,巩固; 具体化
  • Jelly solidifies as it gets cold. 肉冻冷却就凝固。
  • It is stirred with 10%sodium carbonate solution(50ml)and then with water (50ml), after which It'solidifies. 与10%碳酸钠溶液(50毫升)混合搅拌,然后再用50毫升水混合搅拌,从而析出固体。
学英语单词
accelerated ageing test of gasoline
acinar cells
Acrachne racemosa
across-the-grain
Albertazzi
all-purpose gasoline
Archibald's method
az zallaq
basalt glass
Bernoulli variable
botryotherapy
branch of signal-flow diagram
built in gauge
caiche
cargo manifest
chamois leather
chromel alumel thermocouple
clicks and mortar
Clutch play
CM-CELLULOSE
come down on the other side of fence
commercial ready-mixed concrete
congregationless
Contributory Value of Ship
control pattern
CSSCC
date of loss
dentatothalamic fibers
disc tower
drinking water pump
electromagnetic environment level
electrovectorcardioscope
Entamoeba histolytica macacarum
express in
extra-trade
F-5EII
family congridaes
fully-ionized plasma
gibbs apparatus
gravity trap
gyri breves insulae
hepatic comas
impregnating varnish
inner Lagrangian point
Kenner mission
L.I.P.
ldds
lengthened code
lexemes
liquid bituminous material
mappability
marvailed
megaselia (aphiochaeta) aemula
Methoxamedrine
micro-manage
mock seam hose
multitandem valve
news routine
non-disconnecting fuse
Nowakida
octulopyranoside
panel-based
perused
ponycart
powder flame spray welding
price movement limit
primary depression
prochromatin
profunda
prompt copies
pseudoasymmetric
race hostility
reaction diffusion network
reactor safety circuits
Rhododendron ovatum
room decorator
round chop
sailfish
sclerotical
Seaton Delaval
secondary hair
self-conjugate tetrahedron
semitro-seamer
sesquialteras
severings
sib-mated
size-specific
skirt leather
sordidness
space temperature variation
speed reduction gearing
subcaudal
taliercio
targettraining
taxpayer
three-four-five rule
traumatopathy
tubeless autopilot
tumain
wave-energies
weirdsome
winged cork