September 1st, 2009 
ghostlei } Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times. They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily accumulates. What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written word. Films, videos, CDs and CD-ROMS are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have.
} Record：
动/名词发音不一样
蒙特利尔（ Montreal）
注意发音
} Mass：
mass media
大众传媒。大学里的一个专业
} Rely on: /depend on
it depends /it happens
看情况而定/这很正常，是会发生的
Let me know what happens.
这是和别人告别时说的话，意思是发生了什么要告诉我
} They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action. But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task. He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available. Even seemingly insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man.
} Task:
I am soft of in the middle of another task here.
我现在忙着呢；我在做别的事情
} Clues: hints
提示；线索
(code hints)
用Dreamweaver写代码的时候，你写一个h，那么它就会提示用h开头做代码的有哪些，这种就叫做 code hints。
} Available: accessible
中文中没有一一对应
internet access
你有网线，可以上网，这种就叫做internet access
} Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons. Recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.
} Assumed: /presume
有一个同学作弊的时候被逮到了，可能会被开除，这时候有一个老师比较nice,安慰她说——
You’re just presuming that.
你现在只是在假设；意思就是说只是你自己在这想，并没有说要开除你了。它的意思就相当于——
That’s not really what（you think）already happened .
} 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.
} Symbol
Flash Symbols (graphics, button, movieclip)
英文的flash这个软件用的是symbols。Symbols 包括括号里那三种
} World:
It’s a small world!
世界真小。尤其是用在熟人或朋友在某一个地方偶然相遇时。下面这两个意思一样
Small world, isn’t it?
What a small world!
} Code：
密码，代码
decode /demystify/ deregulate
解密 非神秘化 本来已经是regulate 的东西，把它变得不regulate，就是deregulate
} 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.
} Primitive type:
reference type (JAVA变量)
这两个是Java语言的两个变量；primitive 原始的
} Depicted: describe
描述，描绘
There are no words to describe how beautiful you are.
没有语言可以形容你有多漂亮
I can’t describe how excited I am now.
That is absolutely indescribable!
实在是无法形容
} Writing:
这里是指板书
I can’t recognize your writing.
我看不清你写的是什么。上课时如果老师的板书你看不清的话可以这样说
} 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 seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.
} Real:
Really?/That’s for real?
真的吗？
That’s for sure?
我有一次在图书馆卖书，几本书用一个皮袋装着。有一个老外买了这几本书，然后我说这袋子也给你，他就问，是真的吗？就有了下面这样的对话——
A:For real?
B:Absolutely! I don’t sell books for a living you know.
当然了。我又不是已卖书为生
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