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Unit 5 How to Be True to Yourself Words and Expressions 1. demonstrate vt. 1) show; make clear e.g. These figures clearly demonstrate the size of the economic problem facing the country. Research has demonstrated that babies can recognize their mothers voice very soon after birth. 2) make a public expression that you are not satisfied about something, especially by marching or having a meeting e.g. Thousands of people gathered to demonstrate against the new proposals. 成千上万的人一起游行示威反对新提议。 Derivations: demonstration: n. demonstrative: adj. Synonyms: show, exhibit, display 2. integrity: n. 1) the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles that you refuse to change e.g. No one doubted that the president was a man of the highest integrity. You can trust him; he is a man of complete integrity. 你可以相信他，他是一个刚正不阿的人。 2) the quality of being whole and complete e.g. Our integrity as a nation is threatened by these separatist forces. 我们国家的完整受到了这些分裂主义势力的威胁。 Synonyms: honesty, unity, wholeness Collocations: in ones integrity 完整，原封未动 3. morality: n. a personal or social set of standards for good or bad behavior and character, or the quality of being right, honest or acceptable e.g. They are discussing the morality of cloning. 他们正在讨论克隆的道德性。 His ways of making money are certainly successful, but I doubt their morality. Synonym: ethics Antonym: immorality Derivation: moral adj. Comparison: morality, ethics morality: the rightness or pureness of behavior ethics: It refers to the study of what is morally right,what is not and the questions concerned. e.g. I am unconcerned with questions of religion or morality. 我对宗教问题或者道德问题不感兴趣。 Whether a country should have nuclear weapons or not should be a question of ethics, not of politics. 一个国家是否该拥有核武器应该是个道德问题，而非政治问题。 Ethics is a branch of philosophy. 伦理学是哲学的分科。 4. expediency: n. when something is helpful or useful in a particular situation, but sometimes not morally acceptable e.g. His behaviour seems t