大学英语四级第四单元单词.docVIP

Unit 4 Understanding animals I. Vocabulary Passage 1 When we abuse animals we debase ourselves debase: v. to lower in rank, dignity, or significance Sport is being?debased?by commercialism.体育运动的价值受商业化的影响而逐渐下降。 You?debase?yourself by telling such lies.你说这些谎话就降低了身份。 slaughterhouse: n. a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir He got work in a slaughterhouse, then switched to a job at leather - processing factory. 他先在屠宰场找到了工作, 后来又转到皮革加工厂上班。 Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn Germany.?? 两个动物权力保护者正在