,过时的,古老的
inadequate : a. 不充分的,不适当的
consequently : ad. 结果
custodial : a. 保管的,保管人的;n.圣物保管容器
rhetoric : n. 修辞,修辞学,华丽虚饰的语言
priority : n. 优先权,优先顺序,优先,前,依次
laymen : 外行, 门外汉
inevitably : ad. 不可避免
discipline : n. 训练,纪律;vt. 训练,惩罚
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P5
Anthropologists have pieced together the little they know about the history of left-handedness and right-handedness from indirect evidence. Though early men and women did not leave written records, they did leave tools, bones, and pictures. Stone Age hand axes and hatchets were made from stones that were carefully chipped away to form sharp cutting edges. In some, the pattern of chipping shows that these tools and weapons were made by right-handed people, designed to fit comfortably into a right hand. Other Stone Age implements were made by or for left-handers. Prehistoric pictures, painted on the walls of caves, provide further clues to the handedness of ancient people. A right-hander finds it easier to draw faces of people and animals facing toward the left, whereas a left-hander finds it easier to draw faces facing toward the right. Both kinds of faces have been found in ancient painting. On the whole , the evidence seems to indicate that prehistoric people were either ambidextrous or about equally likely to be left- or right-handed.
But, in the Bronze Age , the picture changed. The tools and weapons found from that period are mostly made for right-handed use. The predominance of right-handedness among humans today had apparently already been established.
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anthropologist : n. 人类学家
piece : n. 块,片,篇,碎片,部分;vt. 修补,修理,结合;vi. 接头
left-handed : a. 左撇的,用左手的,笨拙的
right-handed : a. 用右手的,向右转的,右旋性的
indirect : a. 间接的,次要的,欺骗的
evidence : n. 证据,迹象
axes : n. 轴,轴线,轴心
hatchet : n. 斧头,手斧,战斧
chip :n.芯片,晶片,薄片,碎片;vt.削,切,削成碎片,使摔倒,凿;vi. 碎裂
pattern : n. 模范,典型,式样,模式,样品,格调,图案;vt. 模仿,仿造,以图案装饰;vi.形成图案
weapon : n. 武器,兵器;vt. 武装
implement : n. 工具,器具;vt. 实现,使生效,执行
left-hander : n. 左撇子,左击,左手投球
prehistoric : adj. 史前的；老式的
ancient : a. 远古的,旧的
whereas : conj. 然而,反之,鉴于
ambidextrous : a. 两手俱利的,怀有二心的
bronze : n. 青铜,铜像;a. 青铜色的
predominance : n. 卓越,优势,控制
establish : vt. 建立,确立,制定;vi. 移植生长
P6
Here in the United States, before agricultural activities destroyed the natural balance, there were great migrations of Rocky Mountain locusts (Melanoplus spretus) . Great migrating were often destroyed; the worst years were those from 1874 to 1877. One of these migrating swarms was estimated to contain 124 billion locusts. During another migration in Nebraska, it was estimated that the swarm of locusts averaged |
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