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Lesson 38 The first calendar 最早的日历 What is the importance of the dots, lines, and symbols engraved on stone, bones and ivory? New words and expressions 1.calendar: a chart or series of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a particular year, or giving particular seasonal information 日历 academic calendar 校历 lunar calendar 阴历 solar calendar 阳历 in/on a/the ~ 在日程表上 2.historian n.历史学家 historic adj.有历史意义的 -- This is a historic speech. historical adj.与历史研究有关系的 -- historical research 历史研究 3. unique adj. being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else 独一无二的；独特的 ; particularly remarkable, special, or unusual 罕有的；极不寻常的 E.g. unique feature 特色[点, 性] unique opportunity 极难得的机会 unique copy 珍本 4. video n. the system of recording, reproducing, or broadcasting moving visual images on or from videotape 录像，录影 v. to film (someone or something) with a video camera 给…录像 E.g. The jury watched video footage of the riots. 陪审团观看暴乱发生时的录像。 The thief was caught on video as he pocketed watches and rings. 窃贼偷手表和戒指的过程都被拍摄下来。 5.bewilder v. [with obj.] [often as adj. bewildered] cause (someone) to become perplexed and confused 使糊涂，使困惑 派生： bewilderedly adv. bewilderingly adv. bewilderment n. E.g. I was bewildered by the maze of streets in the city. 我被市里错综复杂的街道弄糊涂了。 6.deduce: v. [with obj.] arrive at (a fact or a conclusion) by reasoning; draw as a logical conclusion指“根据充分证据或从一般原则进行逻辑推理而推出”, 如: E.g.The method was deduced from experiments . 这个方法是经过实验推论出来的。 antonym (反义词):induce (Logic) derive by inductive reasoning (逻)归纳出 infer v. deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements推断, 指“由已知的事实或信念进行推理而得出 (结论)”, 如: E.g. From your smile I infer that youre pleased. 从你的笑容, 我断定你很高兴。 7. scanty adj. (scantier, scantiest) small or insufficient in quantity or amount 少量的，不足的,吝啬的(scantiness n.) E.g. There is scanty evidence to support their accusations. 他们的指控证据不足。 a scanty supply of food 食物供应不足 -- be scanty of sth. 奇缺 / be short of sth. 短缺