The first calendar 最早的日歷
Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times. They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily accumulates. What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written word. Films, videos. CDs and CD-ROMs are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have. They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action. But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available. Even seemingly insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man.
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. Recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusk of mammoths. 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. By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code. They have found that it is connected with the passage of days and the phases of the moon. It is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar. It has long been known that the hunting scenes depicted on walls were not simply a form of artistic expression. They had a definite meaning, for they were as near as early man could get to writing. It is possible that there is a definite relation between these paintings and the markings that sometimes accompany them. It seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.
4.Films, videos. CDs and CD-ROMs are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have.
電影、錄像、光盤和光盤驅動器只是能為他們提供令人眼花繚亂的大量信息的幾種手段。
語言點:句子結構分析:定語從句they will have的前面省去了關系代詞that,修飾information。
5.They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action.
他們能夠身臨其境般地觀看我們做事，傾聽我們講話。
語言點:句子結構分析:as it were作插入語，意思是“可以說”。In action作賓語us的補足語。
6.But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.
但是，歷史學家企圖重現(xiàn)遙遠的過去可是一項艱巨的任務。
語言點1:句子結構分析: attempting to reconstruct the distant past為現(xiàn)在分詞短語，作后置定語，修飾historian。
語言點2:be faced with的意思是“面對”，相當于be confronted with。
Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times. They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily accumulates. What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written word. Films, videos. CDs and CD-ROMs are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have. They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action. But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available. Even seemingly insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man.
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. Recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusk of mammoths. 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. By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code. They have found that it is connected with the passage of days and the phases of the moon. It is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar. It has long been known that the hunting scenes depicted on walls were not simply a form of artistic expression. They had a definite meaning, for they were as near as early man could get to writing. It is possible that there is a definite relation between these paintings and the markings that sometimes accompany them. It seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.
4.Films, videos. CDs and CD-ROMs are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have.
電影、錄像、光盤和光盤驅動器只是能為他們提供令人眼花繚亂的大量信息的幾種手段。
語言點:句子結構分析:定語從句they will have的前面省去了關系代詞that,修飾information。
5.They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action.
他們能夠身臨其境般地觀看我們做事，傾聽我們講話。
語言點:句子結構分析:as it were作插入語，意思是“可以說”。In action作賓語us的補足語。
6.But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.
但是，歷史學家企圖重現(xiàn)遙遠的過去可是一項艱巨的任務。
語言點1:句子結構分析: attempting to reconstruct the distant past為現(xiàn)在分詞短語，作后置定語，修飾historian。
語言點2:be faced with的意思是“面對”，相當于be confronted with。