💬 新概念英语第三册
共 1411 条英汉对照例句 · 第 26 页
Lesson 38 The first calender
But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.
但是，历史学家企图重现遥远的过去可是一项艰巨的任务，
Lesson 38 The first calender
He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available.
他们必须根据现有的不充分的线索进行推理。
Lesson 38 The first calender
Even seemingly insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man.
即使看起来微不足道的遗物，也可能揭示人类早期历史的一些有趣的内容。
Lesson 38 The first calender
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.
历史学家迄今认为日历是随农业的问世而出现的，因为当时人们面临着了解四季的实际需要，
Lesson 38 The first calender
Recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.
但近期科学研究发现，好像这种假设是不正确的。
Lesson 38 The first calender
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths.
长期以来，历史学家一直对雕刻在墙壁上、骨头上、古代长毛象的象牙上的点、线和形形色色的符号感到困惑不解。
Lesson 38 The first calender
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.
这些痕迹是游牧人留下的，他们生活在从公元前约35，000年到公元前10，000年的冰川期的末期，以狩猎、捕鱼为生。
Lesson 38 The first calender
By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code.
历史学家通过把世界各地留下的这种痕迹放在一起研究，终于弄懂了这种费解的代码。
Lesson 38 The first calender
They have found that it is connected with the passage of days and the phases of the moon.
他们发现代码与昼夜更迭和月亮圆缺有关，
Lesson 38 The first calender
It is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar.
事实上是一种最原始的日历。
Lesson 38 The first calender
It has long been known that the hunting scenes depicted on walls were not simply a form of artistic expression.
大家早就知道，画在墙上的狩猎图景并不是单纯的艺术表现形式，
Lesson 38 The first calender
They had a definite meaning, for they were as near as early man could get to writing.
它们有着一定的含义，因为它们已接近古代人的文字形式。
Lesson 38 The first calender
It is possible that there is a definite relation between these paintings and the markings that sometimes accompany them.
有时，这种图画与墙壁上的刻痕共存，它们之间可能有一定的联系。
Lesson 38 The first calender
It seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.
看来人类早就致力于探索四季变迁了，比人们想像的要早20，000年。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
The rough across the plain soon became so bad that we tried to get Bruce to drive back to the village we had come from.
穿越平原的道路高低不平，开车走了不远，路面愈加崎岖。我们想劝说布鲁斯把车开回我们出发的那个村庄去。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
Even though the road was littered with boulders and pitted with holes, Bruce was not in the least perturbed.
尽管路面布满石头，坑坑洼洼，但布鲁斯却一点儿不慌乱。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
Glancing at his map, he informed us that the next village was a mere twenty miles away.
他瞥了一眼地图，告诉我们前面再走不到20英里就是一个村庄。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
It was not that Bruce always underestimated difficulties.
这并不是说布鲁斯总是低估困难，
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
He simply had no sense of danger at all.
而是他压根儿没有一点儿危险感。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
No matter what the conditions were, he believed that a car should be driven as fast as it could possibly go.
他认为不管路面情况如何，车必须以最高速度前进。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
As we bumped over eh dusty track, we swerved to avoid large boulders.
我们在尘士飞扬的道路上颠簸，车子东拐西弯，以躲开那些大圆石。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
The wheels scooped up stones which hammered ominously under the car.
车轮搅起的石块锤击车身，发出不祥的锤击声。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
We felt sure that sooner or later a stone would rip a hole in our petrol tank or damage the engine.
我们想念迟早会飞起一个石块把油箱砸开一个窟窿，或者把发动机砸坏。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
Because of this, we kept looking back, wondering if we were leaving a trail of oil and petrol behind us.
因此，我们不时地掉过头，怀疑车后是否留下了机油和汽油的痕迹。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
What a relief it was when the boulders suddenly disappeared, giving way to a stretch of plain where the only obstacles were clumps of bushes.
突然大石块不见了，前面是一片平地，唯一的障碍只有一簇簇灌木丛。这使我们长长地松了口气。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
But there was worse to come.
但是更糟糕的事情在等着我们，
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
Just ahead of us there was a huge fissure.
离我们不远处，出现一个大裂缝。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
In response to renewed pleadings, Bruce stopped.
我们再次央求布鲁斯小心，他这才把车停了下来。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
Though we all got out to examine the fissure, he remained in the car.
我们纷纷下车察看那个大裂缝，他却呆在车上。
Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about
We informed him that the fissure extended for fifty years and was tow feet wide and four feet deep.
我们告诉他那个大裂缝长50码，宽2英尺，深4英尺。