英语听力入门第一册第八单元.docx

英语听力入门第一册第八单元
Unit 8 creative minds ? Part I
A. The following passage will tell you about some 共 43 页


Any of various systems of reckoning time in which the beginning, length, and divisions of a year are defined. 历法：任一种用于标识时间的系统，确定了一年的起先、时长和划分
Puppet
A toylike jointed figure of a person or animal that is made to move by someone pulling wires or strings at a theater performance
A small figure of a person or an animal, having a cloth body and hollow head, designed to be fitted over and manipulated by the hand.
木偶
玩偶：人形玩具；玩偶
：用布料制成身体及空脑袋的小型人或动物的形象，
用于套在手上或用手来操纵
A figure having jointed parts animated from above by strings or wires; a marionette. 木偶：由身体各局部相连接组成的用线或绳子操纵的形象；牵线木偶 A toy representing a human figure; a doll.
Mercedes-Benz 奔驰汽车
German automobile pioneer credited with manufacturing the first vehicle powered with an internal-combustion engine, patented in 1886.










奔驰，卡尔·弗雷德里希：(1844-1929) 德国汽车业先驱，制造了第一辆以内燃机为动力的汽车，于1886年注册专利
Nova Scotia 新斯科舍省

A province of eastern Canada comprising a mainland peninsula and the adjacent Cape Breton Island. It joined the confederation in 1867. The first successful settlement was made by the French at Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal) in 1610. France and Great Britain bitterly contested the area, part of Acadia, until 1763, when the Treaty of Paris awarded the French possessions in North America to
the British. During the 18th century many Scots immigrated to the region, leading to its name, a Latinized version of “New Scotland.” Halifax is the capital and the largest city. Population, 847,442.
新斯科舍省：加拿大东部的省，包括一个大陆半岛和毗临的布雷顿角岛。1867年参加联邦。1610年法国人在罗亚尔港〔现为安娜波利斯·罗亚尔〕第一次胜利地定居。法国和大不列颠曾剧烈地争夺过这一地区，即阿卡迪亚的一局部，直到1733年，当巴黎协议将法国对北美的占有权移交给不列颠18世纪很多苏格兰人移居此地，因此有了这个名字，拉丁文意为“新苏格兰”。哈利法克斯为首府和最大城市。人口847,442

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