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5 t. x1 Q; _8 X. _+ W+ `6 }Thelecture points out that Marco Polo was quite likely to been China, which differs from the ideasof the reading materials. In the passage, the author outlines several reasonswhich seems (seem) to demostrate(demonstrate) that Marco Polo had never been to China. However, the professor inthe listening(lecture) defutes (这个不知道是啥意思)it in more details andreasons.
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9 N4 l/ b) \2 P" S1 ZFirstof all, the reading material declares that the lack of Chinese places' names inMarco Polo's book would be a evidence that verify(verifies) Marco Polo had nevertraveled to China. On the contrary, the speaker of(in) the talk(lecture) challenges this idea. Sheintroduces that for a foreigner, using others words to describe the Chineseplaces would be normal. In addition, when Marco Polo wrote his book, long timehas passed. It was difficult for him(应该指的是后人吧) toremember(understand) the unfarmiliar(unfamiliar) names.(我觉得应该是后人没有理解Marco Polo的写的地名)
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/ W: X( w# j+ c5 t" j/ }$ ~Secondly,the lecture casts doubt (用了两个动词)on the idea in thereading, which is that the lack of reference to tea is a strong evidence. Incontrast, the listening suggests that the tea was popular in the south of China at thattime. Because(However) Marco Polo spent most of him(his) time in the north of China, hefailed to contact with this kind of culture.5 @/ D4 T" s j( h" }- }
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In addition, in the Chinese official documents, there was no record on MarcoPolo's offical(official) experience. The writer thinks it doubts the truth of Marco Polo'slife in China.On the other hand, the talk departs from the idea through several aspects. Itwas quite likely that in the document people used a different name to symbolMarco Polo(应该是Marco Polo在中国用不同的名字), because it was so common at that time that not using a real namein the record. Moreover, the record of Marco Polo perhaps has lost for somereasons./ V& u0 Z% f# a.h
, L% ?- l8 T1 ?, |* Q- AAccordingto the lecture, the evidences that signifies(signify) Marco Polo had never been toChina are not sound(valid), which are outlined in the reading.
大体上把听力部分听完了,但是有的细节漏了(我也一直这样,听力是我的软肋),人称单复数要注意,单词拼写要注意。如果时间充裕,可以在写完之后检查一下,,这比字数多少,更重要。这篇文章字数还是挺多的,佩服你的打字速度,我就不行。 |