L38-2:The first calendar
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks 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 seasons20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.
dot /dɑːt/ 小圆点
symbol /ˈsɪmbl/ 符号
engrave /ɪnˈɡreɪv/ 雕刻
ivory /ˈaɪvəri/ 象牙制品
mammoth /ˈmæməθ/ 长毛象
tusk /tʌsk/ 长牙、象牙
nomad /ˈnoʊmæd/ 游牧民
correlate /ˈkɔːrəleɪt/ 使相互联系
passage /ˈpæsɪdʒ/ 时间的）流逝，推移 passage of time 时光流逝,斗转星移， passage of days 昼夜更替
phase /feɪz/ 月相、天相, 阶段;时期
primitive /ˈprɪmətɪv/ 原始的,远古的
depict /dɪˈpɪkt/ 描绘、描画
marking /ˈmɑːrkɪŋ/ 做记号;做标记;留下痕迹;
expression 表达、表现 , artistic expression 艺术表现力
definite /ˈdefɪnət/ 一定的;肯定;确定的;肯定的
accompany /əˈkʌmpəni/ 陪伴;伴随;与…同时发生
单词越来越多，有点力不从心了。不过朗读水准还是在线的。需要提高记单词的效率。
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