Lily的Scalers Talk第八轮新概念朗读持续力训练Da

第四册

Lesson1-1  Finding fossil man 

We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas----legends handed down from one generation of storytellers to another. These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did. Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian people snow living in the Pacific Islands came from. The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.

fossil man   化石人

recount  /riːˈkaʊnt/    叙述

saga /ˈsɑːɡə/  传奇故事，传说

migration  /maɪˈɡreɪʃn/  迁移;移居;迁徙;

anthropologist /ˌænθrəˈpɑːlədʒɪst/  人类学家

ancestor /ˈænsestər/ 祖宗;祖先

archaeologist /ˌɑːrkiˈɑːlədʒɪst/  考古学家

开始第四册的学习了。没想到自己能一路坚持下来，表扬一下自己。