(完整版)新概念英语第四册(中英对译).docVIP

$课文1发现化石人 1. We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. 我们从书籍中可读到 5,000年前近东发生的事情，那里的人最早学会了写字。 2. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. 但直到现在，世界上有些地方，人们还不会书写。 3. The only way that they can preserve their history is to reco unt it as sagas -- lege nds han ded dow n from one gen eratio n of story tales to ano ther. 他们保存历史的唯一办法是将历史当作传说讲述， 由讲述人一代接一代地将史实描 述为传奇故事口传下来。 4. These lege nds are useful because they can tell us someth ing about migrati ons of people who lived long ago, 这些传说是有用的，因为他们告诉我们很久以前生活在这里的移民的一些事情。 5. but none could write dow n what they did. 但是没有人能写下来。 6. An thropologists won dered where the remote an cestors of the Polyn esia n peoples now living in the Pacific Isla nds came from. 人类学家过去不清楚如今生活在太平洋诸岛上的波利尼西亚人的祖先来自何方， 7. The sagas of these people expla in that some of them came from Indon esia about 2,000 years ago. 当地人的传说却告诉人们：其中一部分是约在 2,000年前从印度尼西亚迁来的。 8. But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas,if they had any, are forgotte n. 但是，和我们相似的原始人生活的年代太久远了， 因此，有关他们的传说既使有如 今也失传了。 9. So archaeologists have n either history nor lege nds to help them to find out where the first moder n men came from. 于是，考古学家们既缺乏历史记载， 又无口头传说来帮助他们弄清最早的 “现代人” 是从哪里来的。 10. Fortunately, however, ancient men made tools of stone, especially flint, 然而， 幸运的是，远古人用石头制作了工具，特别是用燧石， 11. because this is easier to shape tha n other kin ds. 因为燧石较之其他石头更容易成形。 12. They may also have used wood and skins, but these have rotted away. 他们也可能用过木头和兽皮，但这类东西早已腐烂殆尽。 13. Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have rema ined whe n even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace. 石头是不会腐烂的。因此，尽管制造这些工具的人的骨头早已荡然无存， 但远古时 代的石头工具却保存了下来。 $课文2不要伤害蜘蛛 14. Why, you may won der, should spiders be our frien ds? 你可能会觉得奇怪， 蜘蛛怎么会是我们的朋友呢？ 15. Because they destroy so many in sects, and in sects in clude some of the greatest en emies of the huma n race. 因为它们能