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新概念英语第四册知识点总结：Finding fossil man

1-3. The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas-legends handed down from one generation of story-tellers to another.

【译文】他们能够保存历史的唯一方法是将历史当传说讲述，由讲述人一代接一代地口授传奇故事。

【讲解】

to recount it as…another是动词不定式短语，作表语，说明主语way的内容，it指history。句中破折号引出同位语。handed down … another是过去分词短语，作legends的定语。another后省略了generation of story-tellers。

【单词和短语】

preserve：保存，保留(to make sth. continue without changing)。

例如：

preserve an old house as a museum 保存一幢老房子用作陈列馆

preserve sb.’s right to do sth. 保留某人对某事物的权利

Few of his early poems are preserved. 他早期的诗没有几首留存下来。

recount：详细叙述，描述，说明(to tell someone a story or describe a series of events)，

例如：

recount a story with real wit 妙趣横生地讲故事

The explorer recounted his adventures in a number of books.

探险家在好几本书中描述自己的冒险经历。

saga：英雄传奇(a long story about events that happened over the years)

hand down：把……传下去(to give or leave sth. to people who will live after you)，

例如：

This custom is handed down from the past. 这个习惯是过去传下来的。

The gold watch has been handed down in his family. 那块金表是他家祖传的。