The Damned Human Race
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Unit 9 The Damned Human raceallegiance /əˈliːdʒəns/ CET6+ TEM81.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 /ˌænəˈkɒndə/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 /ˈænsɛstə/ CET4 TEM41.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 /əˈpiːz/ 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 /əˈsɛnt/ TEM41.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 /əˈtrəʊʃəs/ TEM81.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 /ˌævəˈrɪʃəs/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 / graspingbloodshed /ˈblʌdˌʃɛd/ CET41.N-UNCOUNT Bloodshed is violence in which people are killed or wounded. 流血暴力brood /bruːd/ 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 it a lot, seriously and often unhappily. 担忧brood over计较（尤指忿恨不满）；郁闷地沉思brood on念念不忘， 计较（特指忿恨不满）brood pouch育仔囊；育儿袋brute /bruːt/ TEM41.N-COUNT If you call someone, usually a man, a brute, you mean that they are rough, violent, and insensitive. 粗暴的人 (通常指男性)表不满
adj. 残忍的；无理性的n. 畜生；残暴的人captive /ˈkæptɪv/ CET6 TEM41.ADJ A captive person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed. 被囚禁的; 被圈养的2.N-COUNT A captive is someone who is captive. 被囚禁者3.ADJ A captive audience is a group of people who are not free to leave a certain place and so have to watch or listen. A captive market is a group of people who cannot choose whether or where to buy things. (观众) 不能随意离开的; (市场) 被垄断的4.PHRASE If you take someone captive or hold someone captive, you take or keep them as a prisoner. 囚禁某人captive audience受制而走不开的听众或观众colonel /ˈkɜːnəl/ CET6+ TEM41.N-COUNT/N-TITLE/N-VOC A colonel is a senior officer in an army, air force, or the marines. (陆军、空军或海军的) 上校lieutenant colonel[英]陆军中校；[美]陆军或空军、海军陆战队中校concubine /ˈkɒŋkjʊˌbaɪn/ TEM41.N-COUNT In former times, a concubine was a woman who had a sexual relationship with a man of higher social rank without being married to him. (过去的)妾imperial concubine皇妃conjecture /kənˈdʒɛktʃə/ TEM8 (conjecturing,conjectured,conjectures)1.N-VAR A conjecture is a conclusion that is based on information that is not certain or complete. 推测2.V-T/V-I When you conjecture, you form an opinion or reach a conclusion on the basis of information that is not certain or complete. 推测