Vocabularies

Unit 3 “History Detectives”

1.          analyze (v.) 分解;解析

n   to carefully examine something in order to fully understand it

2.          archeologist (n.) 考古學家

n   a person who studies prehistoric people and their culture

3.          attach (v.) 1.裝上,貼上,繫上[(+to)]

n   to join or fasten something to something else

4.          beneath (prep.) 在下;向下

n   under something

5.          coffin  (n.) 棺材

n   a box which a dead body is buried or cremated

6.          conduct (v.) 實施;處理;經營,管理

n   to organize and carry out an activity or task 

7.          cruelly=brutally (adv.) 殘忍地

8.          debatable (adj.) 可爭辯的,可爭論的

n   not certain, questionable, doubtful

9.          deduce (v.) 演繹,推論[(+from)][+that]

n   to reach a conclusion because of other things you know to be true, to reason from general to specific

10.      detective (n.) 偵探

n   someone whose job is to discover what has happened in a crime or other situation and to find the people involved

11.      enable (v.) 使成為可能

n   to make something possible

12.      exclude (n.) 拒絕接納;把...排除在外;不包括[(+from)]

n   to keep out or leave out

13.      freeze (v.) 結冰,凝固[(+up)]

n   to change a liquid into a solid state due to low temperature

14.      iceman (n.) 冰人奧茨

n   冰人奧茨（Ötzi）是1991年於阿爾卑斯山的奧茨塔爾山冰川發現的天然木乃伊，地點位於奧地利及義大利邊境附近。這具木乃伊正是以其發現地而命名的。該具冰人生存於公元前3300年，距今已被冰封5000餘年。他是歐洲最古老的人類木乃伊，為考古學家打開了瞭解紅銅時代歐洲古人的前所未有的新視野。

n   資料來源: 維基百科 http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E5%86%B0%E4%BA%BA%E5%A5%A7%E8%8C%A8

15.      imply (v.) 暗指;暗示;意味著[+(that)]

n   to indicate or suggest indirectly

16.      infection (n.) 傳染病; 感染[C]

n   a disease or sickness

17.      injury (n.) (對人,動物的)傷害;(對健康的)損害

n   damage done to a person or animal’s body

18.      luxurious (adj.) 豪華的;非常舒適的;

n   very comfortable and expensive

19.      mummy (n.) 木乃伊;(大自然中的)不腐屍體

n   a dead body which is preserved long ago by being rub with special oil and wrapped in cloth

20.      murder (v.) 謀殺

n   to kill someone

21.      pharaoh (n.) 法老(古埃及國王)

n   a king of ancient Egypt

22.      sacrifice=forego=let go (供奉神的)牲禮,祭品;獻祭[C][U]

23.      theory (n.) 意見;推測,揣度[C][+that]

n   a possible explanation for something that has yet to be confirmed

24.      tiny (adj.) 極小的;微小的

n   extremely small

25.      tomb (n.) 墓;墓碑

n   a large grave