文档介绍：Lesson 54 Instinct or cleverness?
Wage
carry on (a war or campaign)
Launch
Revulsion
be filled with, feel ~
充满厌恶;感到厌恶
cause ~
引起反感
express ~
表达反感
conceal ~
掩饰反感
a feeling/sense of revulsion
厌恶感
Horde
A school of fish 一群小鱼
A flock of birds 一群鸟
A colony of bees 一群蜜蜂
A herd of sheep (羊群)
A troop of wolves 一群狼
Luscious
Sweet and juicy
How luscious the wine is !
多么香甜的美酒!
luscious peaches
甘美多汁的桃子
We continually wage war on them, for they contaminate our food, carry diseases, or devour our crops.
Sin original sin
Wrath
Envy
Gluttony
Greed
Lust
Sloth
Pride
They sting or bite without provocation; they fly uninvited into our rooms on summer nights, or beat against our lighted windows.
Uninvited: =unexpected
Provocation:
你一惹他,他就会打你。
(at the mere provocation)
They fly uninvited into our rooms on summer nights
= They are uninvited when they fly into our rooms on summer nights
We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless one like moths. Reading about them increases our understanding without dispelling our fears.
unpleasant insects: terrible ,awful.
increases our understanding:
提高眼界,打开胸怀,拓展平台
Raise one’s vision
Open up one’s mind
Expand one’s life platform
In dread of 介词分开
Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a anized society does nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared ic lunch.
crawl into/out of bed :to get into or out of bed slowly because you are very tired:
We crawled into bed at 2 am.
does nothing to:对---无济于事。= It's no use(找例句)
anized: highly disciplined
high degree of responsibility/ trust/ attention
high level of civilization