阅读部分需要提取的观点是:
这篇文章从结构和内容上看,都比较和谐。但是,考古学的内容可能比较陌生,但是,更多是心理战的成分。
- Main point: 查科峡谷巨屋的用途
- Sub point 1:居住
- Sub point 2:储存玉米
- Sub point 3:祭祀
在听力部分,我们可以预测到的就是这三个理论都不成立,那么究竟是什么原因不成立呢?我们来听听:
Unfortunately none of the arguments about what the Chaco great houses were used for is convincing.
很遗憾,关于查科峡谷巨屋用途的三个理论,都不具有说服力。
First, sure, from the outside, the great houses look like later and Native American apartment buildings. But the inside of the great houses casts serious doubt on the idea that many people lived there. Ill explain. If hundreds of people were living in the great houses, then there would have to be many fireplaces, where each family did its daily cooking, but there are very few fireplaces. In one of the largest great houses, there were fireplaces for only around ten families. Yet there were enough rooms in the great house for more than a hundred families, so the primary function of the houses couldnt have been residential.
首先,当然从外部卡莱,这些巨屋同之后出现的美洲土著居住建筑很相似。但是巨屋的内部构造却反驳着居住说观点。我来解释一下。如果真有数百人居住与此,那么一定有很多灶火坑以便每家都可以用来做饭。但事实上巨屋里只有很少很少的灶火坑。在其中最大的一个巨屋里,存在的灶火坑只够十家人使用。然而,存在的空间却可以供一百家人居住。所以,巨屋的主要功能不可能是居住。
【新托福TPO 5综合写作详细解析:查科峡谷的巨屋】相关文章:
最新
2017-06-13
2016-02-26
2016-02-26
2016-02-26
2016-02-26
2016-02-26