英语听力精选进阶版 11426

 

039 Admonitions Scroll¹ 27 May 2010

Thu, 27 May 10

Chinese scroll with advice for palace ladies on correct behaviour. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, explores this eleven foot painting based on a poem, which attempted to define the proper behaviour for women during the tumultuous time that followed the collapse² of the Han Empire. He tells the story of the scroll and finds out what it is was about women's behaviour that was so worrying men of the period.

1 scroll   

n.卷轴，纸卷；(石刻上的)漩涡

参考例句：

• As I opened the scroll,a panorama of the Yellow River unfolded.我打开卷轴时，黄河的景象展现在眼前。
• He was presented with a scroll commemorating his achievements.他被授予一幅卷轴，以表彰其所做出的成就。

2 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。