新概念英语课件NCE3-lesson38（共26张）

Lesson38ThefirstcalendarNewwordscalendar历法，日历solarcalendar阳历lunarcalendar阴历Todayisherbirthdayaccordingtothesolarcalendar.historian历史学家historic(adj.)可名垂青史的，历史上著名的Ahistoricbuilding/momenthistorical(adj.)（有关）历史的thehistoricalbackgroundtothewar历史背景historicaldocuments/records/research史学文献/档案/研究unique无与伦比的唯一的，独一无二的Everyone’sfingerprintsareunique.独特的，罕见的Auniquetalent(某人、地或事物)独具的，特有的ThekoalaisuniquetoAustralia.steadily不断地SteadyConstant稳步的，持续的，匀速的fiveyearsofsteadyeconomicgrowthRegular稳定的，恒定的Hisbreathingwassteady.Asteadyjob/income稳的，平稳的Heheldtheboatsteady.SteadilyThecompany’sexportshavebeenincreasingsteadily.solely唯一的OnlyShewasmotivatedsolely

byself-interest.她完全出于私利Selectionisbasedsolelyonmerit.选拔唯贤Hebecamesolelyresponsibleforthefirm.CD-ROMvideodiskbewilder令人眼花缭乱bewilder使迷惑，使糊涂Shewastotallybewilderedbyhissuddenchangeofmood.bewilderedHeturnedaround,withabewilderedlookonhisface.BewilderingThereisabewilderingvarietyofsoftwareavailable.各种可供挑选的软件令人目不暇接deduce推断，推理Canwededucefromyoursilencethatyoudonotapprove?你保持沉默，我们是否可以据此而推断出你不赞成？Wecandeducealotfromwhatpeoplechoosetobuy.从人们选购的东西可以做出多方面的推断scanty不足的Scant(adj.):hardlyany(只用在名词前)Ipaidscantattentiontowhatshewassaying.我没大注意她在说什么Thefirefighterswentbackintothehousewithscantregardfortheirownsafety.消防员奋不顾身地返回那座房子scanty(scantier,scantiest)Detailsofhislifearescanty.ascantybikini遮不住多少身体的比基尼泳装clue线索Thepolicethinkthevideotapemayholdsomevitalcluestotheidentityofthekiller.重要线索you’llneverguesswhoIsawtoday.

Givemeaclue.提示Idon’thaveacluewhereshelives.不知道Don’taskhimtodoit-hedoesn’thaveaclue.笨极了insignificant不重要的aninsignificantdifference微不足道的差别Hemadeherfellinsignificantandstupid.他使她感到卑微愚蠢SignificantAhighlysignificantdiscovery有重大意义的，显著的Itissignificantthatgirlsgenerallydobetterinexaminationsthanboys.很明显asignificantlook/smile意味深长的眼神/微笑shed使流出，泻V.Thefactoryissheddingalargenumberofjobs.裁员（去除）Thecandlesshedasoftglowonherface.蜡烛在他的脸上映着一层柔光。Sheshednotearswhensheheardhewasdead.洒，流N.Abicycleshed自行车棚advent出现，到来，来临Theadventofnewtechnology新技术的出现Adventure冒险Adventuregame冒险游戏Asense/spiritofadventure冒险意识/精神agriculture农业Industry工业Service(industry)服务业assumption假定，设想Hisactionswerebasedonafalseassumption.他的行为基于错误的设想Anunderlying/implicitassumption设想，含蓄的假定Itisimpossibletomakeassumptionaboutpeople'sreactions.臆断人们的反映是不可能的。symbol符号dot小圆点engrave雕刻Hisnamewasengravedonthesilvercup.Beengravedon/inyourheart,memory,mind牢记，铭记ivory象牙制品Ivorytower象牙塔（指脱离现实生活的小天地）mammoth（古）长毛象tusk獠牙，长牙，象牙nomad游牧民correlate使相互联系Thefiguresdonotseemtocorrelate.这些数字似乎毫不相干Ahigh-fatdietcorrelateswithagreaterriskofheartdisease.高脂肪饮食与增加心脏病发作的风险密切相关Researchersaretryingtocorrelatethetwosetsoffigures.研究人员正试图展示这两组数字的相关性phase月相，天相primitive原始的Primitivetribes原始部落Primitiveman原始人Aprimitiveinstinct原始本能（maternalinstinct）depict描画，描绘Theartisthaddepi