📖2018-07-18 人类简史18

📖Day18 人类简史笔记18

1⃣️What remedy? [口语]有什么补救办法?

2⃣️If you describe someone or something as humdrum, you mean that they are ordinary, dull, or boring. 平凡的; 单调乏味的

3⃣️[ADJ.] If you describe something such as a connection, a reason, or someone's position as tenuous, you mean that it is very uncertain or weak. 脆弱的; 不重要的

4⃣️But when particularly complex societies began to appear in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, a completely new type of information became vital – numbers. 在...之后

5⃣️phase out 使逐步淘汰;逐渐停止

原句:So once Spain’s dominion was more firmly established, quipus were phased outand the new empire’s records were kept entirely in Latin script and numerals.