时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:轻松英文阅读


英语课

 There is an island in the Bay of Bengal between Myanmar and Indonesia. It is called North Sentinel Island but the inhabitants of the island don’t know that. In fact, the Sentinelese people know almost nothing of the outside world. They have never seen a cell phone, a car or even a book.


 
It is believed that the Sentinelese first came to the island around 60,000 years ago from Africa. Over the years, people from the outside have tried to visit the island, but each time they have been met by attacks. The Sentinelese do not welcome any kind of contact with the outside world. Because of this, we know little about them. We know nothing about their culture, their language or even how many there are. There could be only 40 or as many as 400.
 
In 1974, a film crew went to the island to make a documentary. The project came to a quick end, however. Sentinelese warriors 1 attacked their boats with arrows and spears from the beach. One of the film crew was was hit in the leg by a 2.5-meter long arrow. (See the video from the documentary below.) There have been other attempts to visit the island. But they always in a similar way.
 
The island is under the control of India now and the Indian Navy maintains a 5-kilometer buffer 2 zone around the island, which makes it practically impossible for anyone to get to the island. Currently, the Indian government has no plans to make contact with the islanders, which is probably for the best.

1 warriors
武士,勇士,战士( warrior的名词复数 )
  • I like reading the stories ofancient warriors. 我喜欢读有关古代武士的故事。
  • The warriors speared the man to death. 武士们把那个男子戳死了。
2 buffer
n.起缓冲作用的人(或物),缓冲器;vt.缓冲
  • A little money can be a useful buffer in time of need.在急需时,很少一点钱就能解燃眉之急。
  • Romantic love will buffer you against life's hardships.浪漫的爱会减轻生活的艰辛。
学英语单词
a given period of time
abadie
accuse sb. of a crime
Allium blandum
alveolar tubes
Aquabase
armature stop
azotite
besieged city
blackbutt
boddles
Boerhaave's glands
bouabid
carcinomatous metastasis
catastrophizes
claudios
comb in micrometer
computer-readable
cooperative test
corpusanse
Corydalis virginea
death-bed
deca-tesla
disk command
doneeka
error ellipse element
exchange visits
eye-muscles
ferropargasite
frictional disc drive
galvanized coil
genus bacteroidess
genus helxines
giant impact
gyroangle
hand-held scanner
Hovborg
hymenolepiasis
ibrotamide
imposition of sanctions against staff and workers
induction log
Insulation Displacement Connector
ISLM
itoigawaite
Jacketedautoclav
james cleveland owenss
Joe Buck
juglar
leatheret
ligamenta laterale
lipopexic
logic zero data
loose coupler
macro-family sociology
manifested
Mass Downloader
matching resistance network
miggie
minucius felix
Nonington
nonrace
novem-
Osmorphore
other rewritable optical disc drives
panzarotti
peach of
peopler
pitcherry
play group
pollution plume
preprocessing unit
private owners
pspc
pyuria
Rabbitland
re-delivered
release event
Remmels
reverse lever latch spring stem
revocable franchise
right ventral colon
rubiacic
Rubus tinifolius
Sanjian
settlement lag
shuga
Sorbus thomsonii
source code control
spaniolite
spontaneous fluctuation
steady state constant
subacid
sublevel stoping mining
synchrophasors
tessellates
the Regional Oil Combating Center
the yoke of brotherhood
three-ty
time cost
Vaglaskógur
vittaria ensiformis
whortleberries