北师大版高中英语模块4--Unit12 Culture Shock 1

[00:03.16]Unit 12 Culture Shock Culture corner
[00:06.92]Australia Aborigines-the Native Australians
[00:10.94]Aborigines probable came to Australia
[00:13.25]from Indonesia 50,000 years ago.
[00:16.38]The oldest bone found in Australia
[00:18.78]was at Lake Mungo in New South Wales.
[00:21.92]Scientists believe it is 38 000 years old
[00:25.87]and it carried some ceremonial paint.

[00:29.12]Aborigines were nomads¹.
[00:31.25]Originally,they didn't have a sense
[00:33.54]of land ownership,
[00:34.98]although Aboriginal² children were taught
[00:37.17]from an early age that they belonged
[00:39.33]to the land and must respect tribal³ boundaries.
[00:42.89]Tribes returned to particular places
[00:45.11]to bury their dead.
[00:46.75]Some places, like Uluru.
[00:49.15]were sacred because they were associated
[00:51.28]with the "Dreamtime",
[00:53.14]the time when the Earth was formed
[00:54.87]and cycles of life and nature began.
[00:56.97]

1 nomads   

n.游牧部落的一员( nomad的名词复数 )；流浪者；游牧生活；流浪生活

参考例句：

• For ten years she dwelled among the nomads of North America. 她在北美游牧民中生活了十年。
• Nomads have inhabited this region for thousands of years. 游牧民族在这地区居住已有数千年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 aboriginal   

adj.（指动植物）土生的，原产地的，土著的

参考例句：

• They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.他们终于把那些土著人全部消灭了。
• The lndians are the aboriginal Americans.印第安人是美国的土著人。

3 tribal   

adj.部族的，种族的

参考例句：

• He became skilled in several tribal lingoes.他精通几种部族的语言。
• The country was torn apart by fierce tribal hostilities.那个国家被部落间的激烈冲突弄得四分五裂。