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titter: n. 傻笑；窃笑；嗤笑 apprehension: n.恐惧；忧惧 assemble: vt.聚集，集合 occasion: vt.引起，惹起 obscure: adj.微暗的，不著名的 tadpole： n.蝌蚪 Para1. Brave New World:美好新世界 sheer: adj.绝对的，透明的，俊俏的 wattage: n.瓦特数，瓦数 monster: n.怪物 Embryo: n.胚胎 Loosely：adj.轻率地 Para2 For sheer Frankenstein wattage, the purposeful creation of these animal monsters has no equal. Such purposeful creations, which is as horrible as Frankenstein, have no counterpart Counterpart:相似之物 Para6 “and creating artificial wombs (as per Aldous Huxley), given that it might be difficult to recruit sane women to carry headless fetuses to their birth / death.