英语听力精选进阶版 11432

 

045 Arabian Bronze Hand 4 Jun 2010

Fri, 4 Jun 10

 

Life sized bronze hand with writing on the back. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, explores the religious climate of pre-Islamic Arabia, its wealth of local gods and imported beliefs. The bronze hand is not part of a god, but a gift to a god in a Yemeni hill village. The hand surgeon Jeremy Field considers whether this was the modelled from a real human hand and religious historian¹ Philip Jenkins reflects on what happens to the old pagan gods when a brand new religion sweeps into town.

1 historian   

n.历史学家，编史家

参考例句：

• As a historian,he was most typical of the times in which he lived.作为历史学家，他是他所处时代最有代表性的人物。
• He calls himself a historian,but his books are a mere journalism.他自称为历史学家，但是他的书都是些肤浅的通俗作品。