Unit 9 The Damned Human race.doc

Unit 9 The Damned Human race allegiance?/??li?d??ns/??CET6+ TEM8 1.N-VAR?Your?allegiance?is your support for and loyalty to a particular group, person, or belief. 拥护 pledge of allegiance效忠誓言anaconda?/??n??k?nd?/ 1.N?a very large nonvenomous arboreal and semiaquatic snake,?Eunectes murinus,?of tropical South America, which kills its prey by constriction: familyBoidae?(boas) 水蟒; 产于南美洲，以缠绕紧缩躯体杀死猎物ancestor?/??ns?st?/??CET4 TEM4 1.N-COUNT?Your?ancestors?are the people from whom you are descended. 祖先2.N-COUNT?An?ancestor?of?something modern is an earlier thing from which it developed. 物种原型 ancestor worship祖先崇拜；祭祖；敬奉祖先appease?/??pi?z/??CET6 TEM8?(appeasing,appeased,appeases) 1.V-T?If you try to?appease?someone, you try to stop them from being angry by giving them what they want. 姑息表不满使平息；使满足；使和缓；对…让步ascent?/??s?nt/??TEM4 1.N-COUNT?An?ascent?is an upward journey, especially when you are walking or climbing. 攀登 2.N-COUNT?An?ascent?is an upward slope or path, especially when you are walking or climbing. 上坡; 上坡路 3.N-COUNT?An?ascent?is an upward, vertical movement. 垂直上升运动 atrocious?/??tr????s/??TEM8 1.ADJ?If you describe something as?atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad. (质量) 极差的强调 2.ADJ?If you describe someones behaviour or their actions as?atrocious, you mean that it is unacceptable because it is extremely violent or cruel. (行为) 残暴的 atrocious weather恶劣气候 avaricious?/??v??r???s/1.ADJ?An?avaricious?person is very greedy for money or possessions. 贪婪的表不满 adj.贪婪的；贪得无厌的 greedy?/?grasping bloodshed?/?bl?d???d/??CET4 1.N-UNCOUNT?Bloodshed?is violence in which people are killed or wounded. 流血暴力 brood?/bru???CET6 TEM4?(brooding,brooded,broods) 1.N-COUNT?A?brood?is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother. 一窝幼雏2.N-COUNT?You can refer to someones young children as their?brood?when you want to emphasize that there are a lot of them. 一家子强调...a large brood of children.…一大家子小孩。 3.V-I?If someone?broods?over something, they think about i