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【英语语言学习】接吻的历史

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MUSIC/No I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how. (Gone With The Wind)
Amanda Smith: A smoochy-smoochy, osculating edition of The Body Sphere here on RN. I'm Amanda Smith, bringing you the science and history of kissing. Why do we kiss? Is it instinct? Is it culture? What clues about yourself are you giving, and getting, when you kiss someone?
Okay so let's start with physiology1, because human lips are special. Sheril Kirshenbaum is the author of The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us.
Sheril Kirshenbaum: Well, human lips are unique in that they're everted, so they purse outwardly in a way that's different from all the other members of the animal kingdom. And so when we connect through kissing it means something different, and it affects us differently than in any other species.
Amanda Smith: Well, we're going to focus here mostly on lip-to-lip kissing, but there are, of course, lots of other kinds of kisses. In many ancient texts, from Vedic Sanskrit writings to Homer to the Old Testament2, a kiss is a greeting. What information is being exchanged, in a way, why have we greeted each other with a kiss going back for who knows how far?
Sheril Kirshenbaum: Well, we always hear about this confrontation3 between nature and nurture4—you know, is there instinct behind some behaviour or is it cultural—and kissing is a wonderful example of both, nature and nurture, complementing5 each other. So we kiss people for different reasons. We kiss them because it's what we're familiar with, what we see on the street, what we see today in movies and billboards6 and things. But we also seem to have this instinctive7 drive to do this. And a kiss can tell us about the health of another person because you're up close and personal, you're getting a sample of their scent8, you're getting clues about whether—if it's a romantic kiss—they might be someone you're compatible with. And the odds9 are pretty good that people have been kissing for as long as humans have been around.
Amanda Smith: So does kissing…you know, using your lips to gather a sense or information about another person—their smell, their feel, their taste—is it understood to derive10 in any way from breastfeeding?
Sheril Kirshenbaum: So we think that kissing probably arose and disappeared all around the world for a variety of reasons. One of the leading theories about why we do the practice, why it's carried from infancy11 into adulthood12 does indeed deal with breastfeeding. A newborn's first experiences with love and comfort and security involve lip stimulation13 through nursing, if they're nursed, or even through bottle feeding. We're tilting15 our head in a similar way that we would tilt14 our head if we were kissing.
In fact more women more frequently breastfeed to the left, causing us to tilt our head to the right, and when it comes to kissing itself more of us are actually turning to the right and tilting our head to the right to kiss. So we do think that might actually be kind of a carryover. We're associating these very positive emotions laid down early in our lives and then carried over into adulthood, so when we want to express ourselves in a similar way or a more romantic way, we give them a kiss.
Amanda Smith: I hadn't even thought of course that you do have to tilt your head before you kiss someone.
Sheril Kirshenbaum: Exactly.
Amanda Smith: Well, another thing about lips is that they are incredibly sensitive, you know, full of nerve endings. What is being stimulated16 to fire off through the body when two people smooch?
Sheril Kirshenbaum: Our lips are packed with sensitive nerve endings, so even a slight brush of the lips can feel very, very good. And it stimulates17 all of these nerves that go into our brains and travel throughout our bodies and make us feel very, very good. So when people describe sensations of falling in love they might say they feel weak in the knees or they feel butterflies in their stomach, well, there are physiological18 changes in our bodies causing those sensations.
One of them is through dopamine, and dopamine is a brain chemical, a neurotransmitter that is stimulated when we're doing something that feels very good. And it's also associated with novelty. So dopamine is the famous neurotransmitter that everyone talks about when they're describing what it feels like to have an addiction19. Well, kissing creates a similar signal, and you can actually become addicted20 to the other person. And kissing is a great way to get dopamine going. There's also a rise in oxytocin. Oxytocin is…
Amanda Smith: The love drug.
Sheril Kirshenbaum: …famously called the love drug. And that makes us feel connected to someone, attached. It's what keeps couples together long after that novelty, that dopamine has worn off. And kissing is a wonderful way to promote oxytocin in our bodies. And those are just two examples. There's a lot more going on, epinephrine, serotonin, all of these different chemicals course through our brains and bodies and end up as a cocktail21 that's causing us to feel like we're on cloud nine when we kiss someone that we're really interested in.
Amanda Smith: So, what's the word on the street?
Vox pops:
Woman: I do remember my first kiss. It was my first boyfriend and it was like everything didn't make sense.
Man: It's kind of embarrassing. I dunno, I sort of got butterflies first time.
Man: I don't know. Where I come from we don't kiss. We don't kiss in the public.
Women: Oh my god, worst kiss was, like, year 8 lav, when they kind of just eat your face.
My first kiss was there.
Worst kiss is when people push too hard on your face.
And teeth…
Bad breath…
Cotton mouth…
Man: On school camp. Romantic sort of lying outside on sleeping bags next to a girl I fancied and just sort of…it was good. It was very nice.
Woman: Well, my first kiss was my most memorable22 kiss, I think. Go back to the '70s, I'm at school camp, I'm the school captain, I'm going steady with the bad boy of the school, Kevin. Anyway, he leans across, plants one on my lips, presses my head into the louvres behind me, and I literally23 push him off, run outside and go and tell my friends, 'Kevin pashed me! Kevin pashed me!'
Amanda Smith: Mmm, pashed by Kevin! Historically, though, not all cultures kiss with the lips or on the lips.
Sheril Kirshenbaum: So the grandfather of evolutionary24 biology Charles Darwin wrote about kissing as he travelled around and met different cultures and peoples, and many places he went people weren't kissing. But they were doing these other things, they were nibbling25 and licking and sucking and touching26 each other, but to serve a similar purpose, because ultimately it's a way that we connect. And it's reinforced by all these positive chemical exchanges that happen in our bodies that make us feel very good. And again, it's an evolutionarily adaptive behaviour because once it exists in a culture in some form it's encouraged to persist, because it helps us identify a suitable partner and it helps us reconnect with loved ones, from grandparents to our children.
Amanda Smith: Yes, so it's a kind of exchange of sensory27 information.
Sheril Kirshenbaum: Exactly. Although I will say my favourite story from the literature…because I went back and I read the stories of different European explorers…because kissing was really spread by globalisation, whether it was through Roman conquests or through Europeans travelling and bringing the behaviour with them, but there's this one young man who went to Africa where he was living among a tribe that had never kissed mouth-to-mouth. And he describes how he falls in love with the king's daughter and at some point he gains the courage to give her a kiss, and at that moment she screams and she runs from the hut. And only later he finds out that she thought he was trying to eat her. Kissing is certainly not something we've been doing for ever in every place.
Amanda Smith: And, like Sheril Kirshenbaum, for Marcel Danesi kissing is cultural. He's the author of The History of the Kiss. This was a book prompted by a question a student put to him (he's professor of semiotics and anthropology28 at the University of Toronto).
Marcel Danesi: It was in class, we were discussing cinema, and this student, she asked the question; why is such an act that is obviously unhygienic and could even be repulsive29, how did it acquire such a meaning of romance and of love?
Amanda Smith: Marcel Danesi locates the rise of the romantic kiss in time and place. It has a history.
Marcel Danesi: It does not exist in many parts of the world. To this day, even in the age of the internet and the globalisation of movies with kisses in them, there are many cultures who have no knowledge of it. And some of them even find it absolutely disgusting and very Western. So that's fairly strong evidence that it's not a universal instinct that we do it like, you know, like we do some other biological function; that it has come down to us from events, meaningful events, at a specific point in time.
Amanda Smith: Okay, so when did then the kiss, the smoochy lip-kiss first become the kind of enactment30 and symbol of love and romance?
Marcel Danesi: Of course the kiss, the sexual kiss, including the kiss on the lips, is ancient. And of course kissing as a sign of greeting, as a sign of betrayal (think of Judas) and on and on has been around. You could find hundreds and hundreds of functions of that act, of using the lips, touching some part of the body of the other. That's been around since the beginning of time, and there is plenty of evidence of it.
But if you go and look for sculptures, paintings, poetry that extolls the romantic kiss, the kiss that makes people fall in love—'I have chosen you rather than who I was told to marry'—that cannot be found until you get to these legends in the medieval period. In fact they were called romans in French, written in a vulgar tongue, 'vulgar' of the people rather than in Latin or some official language, which means that they were probably spoken at get-togethers. And people became fascinated by this idea of 'I love this person and no matter what our families say, no matter what the society wants me to do, I will love this person and I will secretly, when nobody sees us, express this by making lip contact.' And the kiss, in my view, became their conduit to their own freedom from this tradition of arrangement. That starts to appear in poetry, in songs.
Amanda Smith: So what you're talking about really is the development of the courtly love ideal that emerged in France in the 12th century. And scholars from CS Lewis in the 1930s have seen that, understood that as an important historical shift, the invention of romantic love as we understand it, really. And every love song, every true love Mills and Boon32 book, every romcom has its origins in the courtly love tradition.
Marcel Danesi: It's not just a knight33 in shining armour34 who decides to have a tryst35 outside of marriage, but some of the songs of the troubadours talk about common folk. And from there emerges, in my view, the proto form of popular culture. People love to hear these songs, and then painters and sculptors36 started to represent them and depict37 them in their own ways.
Amanda Smith: But are you arguing that before this people didn't kiss passionately38 as a kind of courtship ritual, you know, as a gesture of romance?
Marcel Danesi: You know, I'm going to go out on a limb and say yes. They did not. Of course there was love from the beginning of time, but this kind of love where boy meets girl or girl meets boy and they bond and they want to stay together, I can't see any evidence before that period that shows, as I said, love being determined39 by the lovers. I don't see that anywhere in the ancient world at all.
Amanda Smith: So you're saying that some of those ancient texts, yes the lip-kissing is erotic but not romantic in the sense that we understand it.
Marcel Danesi: Absolutely.
Amanda Smith: Why is it, Marcel, that this great romantic gesture as we understand it is about two people's lips coming together?
Marcel Danesi: In the early medieval period, when a couple would marry in church, they would exchange breath. Their lips would come close and it was called theosculum pacis, the kiss of peace. But it also symbolically40 meant our exchange of souls. To this day we think of the breath as holding our inner self and our soul. They would literally breathe into each other's mouth. That's spiritual. And that tradition was there for centuries.
Now, bring the lips a little closer and the spirituality turns into carnality. And there are many legends that it occurred, as we mentioned before, probably in the tradition of courtly love. That act, if you think about it—a couple of millimetres away, brings the lips together. And touching the lips—has always been erogenous and erotic.
Now, it's easy to merge31 from one domain41, the spiritual, into the carnal. And you know I'm a firm believer that we are more creatures of historical forces than we are of biological, or at the very least the biology and the history interact to produce this uniqueness that is the human being.
Let me tell you an interesting anecdote42: when I was very young here in Toronto, I met my wife in 1964, and we would go to these malls, and kissing was not considered very correct to do in public and we got arrested once, in a mall, for kissing in public! Now that's completely changed. If you see someone kiss today, young people, you say, 'Oh, how sweet, oh how nice.' And I think the movies changed our minds.
MUSIC/Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time. (Casablanca)
Amanda Smith: And more on kissing and the movies later, here in The Body Sphere, on-air and online at RN, Amanda Smith with you.
Now, a kiss can also be a kind of contract of friendship, of alliance. And this is where the idea of 'sealed with a kiss' comes from, according to Sheril Kirshenbaum, the author of The Science of Kissing.
Sheril Kirshenbaum: Well, we are kind of familiar—at least in the US but I'm guessing in Australia too—with using the X as a sign for kissing or a kiss. So we think that comes from a practice that began in the middle ages when people couldn't always sign a contract because many people couldn't read and write. So they would seal contracts, whether it was a wedding contract or some kind of business contract, with an X for where their name would go, and then they would kiss that spot and that was considered fine and dandy. And so at this point that has kind of carried over to a kiss sealing the deal, sealing a marriage today.
Vox pops:
Woman: I was at my year 11 formal after-party and it was getting towards the end of the night and it was pretty messy and I remember pashing this guy. And I was thinking oh, he's sucking really hard on my actual lips. And I was thinking no, this isn't right. Anyway, the next day I just had these bruises43 come up on my lips. So I had to wear my shame. It was awful.
Man: I've just been dumped…I shouldn't say that…by my partner. He was a good kisser. He knew how to swirl44 the tongue. I wouldn't say he was the best, I've had better, but it was good.
Woman: Memorable kisses, all right. So can it be a worst kiss rather than a best kiss? Because I do remember one where I'd been thinking about whether I might go there. Anyway I had a few drinks and was standing45 there and I think…yeah, actually, I think I will. Lean in for the kiss, the start, and this poky little triangular46 tongue starts darting47 in and out of my lips and all of a sudden no, all desire killed. There is no way this is going any further.
Man: Kissing is the best, yeah. All of them are good. How about you?
Amanda Smith: Now, is there a difference between how and why men kiss compared to how and why women kiss?
Sheril Kirshenbaum: Generally speaking it turns out there is, although of course there are exceptions for both. Social psychologists have done research into the motivation for why people decide they want to kiss someone, and most of this has been done on heterosexual couples. There's been very little research on homosexual couples, although there has been some. But when asked why do you kiss a partner or what do you hope to learn about someone from kissing a partner, or any of those questions, women are likely to say, 'I'm kissing someone to see how he feels about me, to figure out where our relationship is headed, to see if I should stay with this person…'
Men on the other hand overwhelmingly were likely to respond with things like, 'I'm kissing her hoping it leads to the exchange of other bodily fluids down the line…' or 'Kissing is a means to an end.'
It feels good for both genders48, but women place a lot more emphasis on the act of kissing itself, and that probably has to do with the fact that women have to be a lot choosier about a sexual partner, because when it comes to reproduction men have far more opportunities and a lot more time throughout their lives to procreate, whereas women have a few days every month for a limited number of years that they're fertile. So women use kissing and their sense of smell and their sense of taste to figure out who is the right partner for them when it comes to reproduction. We're not consciously thinking about this when we're kissing someone of course—at least I know I'm not—but kissing is actually a very reliable way to get a sense of whether someone is genetically49 a well suited partner.
Amanda Smith: Lip-to-lip kissing, particularly French kissing, does involve being up close and very personal, as you say, and the exchange of bodily fluids, swapping50 saliva51. Another scientist has suggested that kissing is the first sign that you're taking the risk with someone. But how unhygienic is kissing? In reality what can you catch?
Sheril Kirshenbaum: Well, there's a chapter in my book I call 'There are Such Things as Cooties', where…
Amanda Smith: That I think is a US term.
Sheril Kirshenbaum: Oh, well cooties are the things when you're a little kid that you're always afraid that if you touch a boy or if you touch a girl you'll get their cooties…
Amanda Smith: Oh right, boys' germs, girls' germs…
Sheril Kirshenbaum: I see. I didn't realise that one didn't carry over. Well, there are things…anything that we can transmit—colds to mononucleosis to flu—all of these things can be transferred through a kiss, that's true. But you're actually a lot more likely to be exposed to dangerous and deadly viruses and bacteria through a handshake than a kiss. And that's because if you think about all the things throughout the day that we are touching with our hands, as opposed to the limited number of maybe people or pets or things that we're actually pressing our lips against, it's a fairly safe behaviour in the scheme of things.
Amanda Smith: Well now, Sheril, you'll remember I'm sure in the film Pretty Woman there's a big deal made of how prostitutes don't kiss because what they're offering I guess is sex without love. In that sense I suppose a kiss isn't a transaction or a commodity in the way that sex can be?
Sheril Kirshenbaum: I would argue that a kiss is the most intimate exchange that two human beings can engage in. When people talk about having sex it's often very passive, right? It's something they get lost in. They lose themselves. Whereas kissing is very active. We're actively52 engaging all of our senses in this one behaviour to help inform what we do next. And we're right up close, face to face. And so for that reason kissing feels a lot more intimate. And Pretty Woman really must have done their homework, because there's actually been research on the behaviours of prostitutes throughout the ages or as far back as we could go, and many, many prostitutes in cultures all around the world have refrained from kissing their johns, limiting the emotional connection.
Amanda Smith: There are of course celebrated53 works of art, all sorts of them, where the kiss is the subject, you know the Gustav Klimt painting, the Rodin sculpture. And in the movies, in a love story the kiss is of course the big moment. Now, we could talk about all our favourite movie kisses from Gone with the Wind and Casablanca to Spiderman and the last Harry54 Potter film. Everyone will have their favourite of course, but tell us about a film called The Kiss. Probably the first onscreen smooch.
Sheril Kirshenbaum: That's a great one, because it was so scandalous at the time, and it would be absolutely nothing by today's standards. But in 1896 the Edison company…
Amanda Smith: Now, this is…1896 of course is very early…
Sheril Kirshenbaum: Very early. And it was just a very proper looking couple, they were dressed formally, the guy had this very, very large moustache and it was this perfunctory kind of kiss. But it was a big scandal, and at the time Herbert Stone, who was a reviewer, he said, 'The spectacle of prolonged pasturing on each other's lips was hard to bear and such things should call for police intervention55.' So this was a big deal.
Marcel Danesi: It was about 45 seconds, and in the movie the two actors talked for about 20 seconds and then they kiss for another 20…
Amanda Smith: As Edison advertised this very short bit of film saying they get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings the house down every time!
Marcel Danesi: Yes, that movie created such an uproar56. You know, it changed the world.
Amanda Smith: It certainly introduced the kiss to the movies, paving the way for all those memorable moments to come; no love story without the kiss.
Marcel Danesi's favourite is Cinema Paradiso, the 1988 Italian film where a famous movie director is bequeathed a reel of all the kissing scenes that were censored57 from the movies of his youth.
Marcel Danesi: You know, when I was young, when I was about 15, 16, I would make it a point…if I knew there was a kiss in a movie I'd say, 'Let me go see it.' You know, the movie Cinema Paradiso, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, brings thisout very powerfully. If your audience is not aware of it I'd really recommend seeing it. It's all about the kiss in movies and the kind of power that it had to transform people's lives.
Amanda Smith: Marcel, I think you're a real romantic.
Marcel Danesi: I think you're right.
Amanda Smith: And Marcel Danesi is the author of The History of the Kiss. Details for it are on The Body Sphere website. Marcel Danesi is also professor of semiotics and anthropology at the University of Toronto in Canada, joining us from Toronto. And Marcel, I'll blow you a simple thank you kiss across the airwaves.
Marcel Danesi: Thank you so much, and I'll blow one back. Ciao.
Amanda Smith: And you also heard from the biologist Sheril Kirshenbaum, in Monterey Bay, California, the author of The Science of Kissing. There's details for that too on The Body Sphere website. And thanks to all those random58 people in the street who told their kissing stories.
abc.net.au/rnis the website, choose The Body Sphere from the list of programs there. You can post a comment; go on, tell me about your first, best or worst kiss.
You can also stream or download this and previous editions of The Body Sphere. I'm Amanda Smith. XXX

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1 physiology uAfyL     
n.生理学,生理机能
参考例句:
  • He bought a book about physiology.他买了一本生理学方面的书。
  • He was awarded the Nobel Prize for achievements in physiology.他因生理学方面的建树而被授予诺贝尔奖。
2 testament yyEzf     
n.遗嘱;证明
参考例句:
  • This is his last will and testament.这是他的遗愿和遗嘱。
  • It is a testament to the power of political mythology.这说明,编造政治神话可以产生多大的威力。
3 confrontation xYHy7     
n.对抗,对峙,冲突
参考例句:
  • We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
  • After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后,他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。
4 nurture K5sz3     
n.养育,照顾,教育;滋养,营养品;vt.养育,给与营养物,教养,扶持
参考例句:
  • The tree grows well in his nurture.在他的培育下这棵树长得很好。
  • The two sisters had received very different nurture.这俩个姊妹接受过极不同的教育。
5 complementing fe2da3ba35c87761139744afaf175986     
补足,补充( complement的现在分词 ); 求反
参考例句:
  • Maligrant segregants may, therefore, arise when complementing chromosomes are lost. 因此当互补染色体丢失时,就会产生恶性分离子。
  • A complementing circuIt'selects either the subtracter output or the output of the complementing circuit. 取补线路可任意选通减法器的输出或补取线路的输出。
6 billboards 984a8d026956f1fd68b7105fc9074edf     
n.广告牌( billboard的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Large billboards have disfigured the scenery. 大型告示板已破坏了景色。 来自辞典例句
  • Then, put the logo in magazines and on billboards without telling anyone what it means. 接着我们把这个商标刊在杂志和广告看板上,却不跟任何人透漏它的涵意。 来自常春藤生活英语杂志-2006年4月号
7 instinctive c6jxT     
adj.(出于)本能的;直觉的;(出于)天性的
参考例句:
  • He tried to conceal his instinctive revulsion at the idea.他试图饰盖自己对这一想法本能的厌恶。
  • Animals have an instinctive fear of fire.动物本能地怕火。
8 scent WThzs     
n.气味,香味,香水,线索,嗅觉;v.嗅,发觉
参考例句:
  • The air was filled with the scent of lilac.空气中弥漫着丁香花的芬芳。
  • The flowers give off a heady scent at night.这些花晚上散发出醉人的芳香。
9 odds n5czT     
n.让步,机率,可能性,比率;胜败优劣之别
参考例句:
  • The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
  • Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗?
10 derive hmLzH     
v.取得;导出;引申;来自;源自;出自
参考例句:
  • We derive our sustenance from the land.我们从土地获取食物。
  • We shall derive much benefit from reading good novels.我们将从优秀小说中获得很大好处。
11 infancy F4Ey0     
n.婴儿期;幼年期;初期
参考例句:
  • He came to England in his infancy.他幼年时期来到英国。
  • Their research is only in its infancy.他们的研究处于初级阶段。
12 adulthood vKsyr     
n.成年,成人期
参考例句:
  • Some infantile actions survive into adulthood.某些婴儿期的行为一直保持到成年期。
  • Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.如今很少有人能将友谊维持到成年。
13 stimulation BuIwL     
n.刺激,激励,鼓舞
参考例句:
  • The playgroup provides plenty of stimulation for the children.幼儿游戏组给孩子很多启发。
  • You don't get any intellectual stimulation in this job.你不能从这份工作中获得任何智力启发。
14 tilt aG3y0     
v.(使)倾侧;(使)倾斜;n.倾侧;倾斜
参考例句:
  • She wore her hat at a tilt over her left eye.她歪戴着帽子遮住左眼。
  • The table is at a slight tilt.这张桌子没放平,有点儿歪.
15 tilting f68c899ac9ba435686dcb0f12e2bbb17     
倾斜,倾卸
参考例句:
  • For some reason he thinks everyone is out to get him, but he's really just tilting at windmills. 不知为什么他觉得每个人都想害他,但其实他不过是在庸人自扰。
  • So let us stop bickering within our ranks.Stop tilting at windmills. 所以,让我们结束内部间的争吵吧!再也不要去做同风车作战的蠢事了。
16 stimulated Rhrz78     
a.刺激的
参考例句:
  • The exhibition has stimulated interest in her work. 展览增进了人们对她作品的兴趣。
  • The award has stimulated her into working still harder. 奖金促使她更加努力地工作。
17 stimulates 7384b1562fa5973e17b0984305c09f3e     
v.刺激( stimulate的第三人称单数 );激励;使兴奋;起兴奋作用,起刺激作用,起促进作用
参考例句:
  • Exercise stimulates the body. 运动促进身体健康。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Alcohol stimulates the action of the heart. 酒刺激心脏的活动。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
18 physiological aAvyK     
adj.生理学的,生理学上的
参考例句:
  • He bought a physiological book.他买了一本生理学方面的书。
  • Every individual has a physiological requirement for each nutrient.每个人对每种营养成分都有一种生理上的需要。
19 addiction JyEzS     
n.上瘾入迷,嗜好
参考例句:
  • He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
  • Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。
20 addicted dzizmY     
adj.沉溺于....的,对...上瘾的
参考例句:
  • He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。
  • She's become addicted to love stories.她迷上了爱情小说。
21 cocktail Jw8zNt     
n.鸡尾酒;餐前开胃小吃;混合物
参考例句:
  • We invited some foreign friends for a cocktail party.我们邀请了一些外国朋友参加鸡尾酒会。
  • At a cocktail party in Hollywood,I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin.在好莱坞的一次鸡尾酒会上,人家把我介绍给查理·卓别林。
22 memorable K2XyQ     
adj.值得回忆的,难忘的,特别的,显著的
参考例句:
  • This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
  • The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。
23 literally 28Wzv     
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
参考例句:
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
24 evolutionary Ctqz7m     
adj.进化的;演化的,演变的;[生]进化论的
参考例句:
  • Life has its own evolutionary process.生命有其自身的进化过程。
  • These are fascinating questions to be resolved by the evolutionary studies of plants.这些十分吸引人的问题将在研究植物进化过程中得以解决。
25 nibbling 610754a55335f7412ddcddaf447d7d54     
v.啃,一点一点地咬(吃)( nibble的现在分词 );啃出(洞),一点一点咬出(洞);慢慢减少;小口咬
参考例句:
  • We sat drinking wine and nibbling olives. 我们坐在那儿,喝着葡萄酒嚼着橄榄。
  • He was nibbling on the apple. 他在啃苹果。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
26 touching sg6zQ9     
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
参考例句:
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
27 sensory Azlwe     
adj.知觉的,感觉的,知觉器官的
参考例句:
  • Human powers of sensory discrimination are limited.人类感官分辨能力有限。
  • The sensory system may undergo long-term adaptation in alien environments.感觉系统对陌生的环境可能经过长时期才能适应。
28 anthropology zw2zQ     
n.人类学
参考例句:
  • I believe he has started reading up anthropology.我相信他已开始深入研究人类学。
  • Social anthropology is centrally concerned with the diversity of culture.社会人类学主要关于文化多样性。
29 repulsive RsNyx     
adj.排斥的,使人反感的
参考例句:
  • She found the idea deeply repulsive.她发现这个想法很恶心。
  • The repulsive force within the nucleus is enormous.核子内部的斥力是巨大的。
30 enactment Cp8x6     
n.演出,担任…角色;制订,通过
参考例句:
  • Enactment refers to action.演出指行为的表演。
  • We support the call for the enactment of a Bill of Rights.我们支持要求通过《权利法案》的呼声。
31 merge qCpxF     
v.(使)结合,(使)合并,(使)合为一体
参考例句:
  • I can merge my two small businesses into a large one.我可以将我的两家小商店合并为一家大商行。
  • The directors have decided to merge the two small firms together.董事们已决定把这两家小商号归并起来。
32 boon CRVyF     
n.恩赐,恩物,恩惠
参考例句:
  • A car is a real boon when you live in the country.在郊外居住,有辆汽车确实极为方便。
  • These machines have proved a real boon to disabled people.事实证明这些机器让残疾人受益匪浅。
33 knight W2Hxk     
n.骑士,武士;爵士
参考例句:
  • He was made an honourary knight.他被授予荣誉爵士称号。
  • A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed.一个骑士骑在装饰华丽的马上。
34 armour gySzuh     
(=armor)n.盔甲;装甲部队
参考例句:
  • His body was encased in shining armour.他全身披着明晃晃的甲胄。
  • Bulletproof cars sheathed in armour.防弹车护有装甲。
35 tryst lmowP     
n.约会;v.与…幽会
参考例句:
  • It has been said that art is a tryst,for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.有人说艺术是一种幽会,因为艺术家和欣赏者可在幽会的乐趣中相遇在一起。
  • Poor Mr. Sanford didn't stand a chance of keeping his tryst secret.可怜的桑福德根本不可能会守住自己幽会的秘密。
36 sculptors 55fe6a2a17f97fa90175d8545e7fd3e2     
雕刻家,雕塑家( sculptor的名词复数 ); [天]玉夫座
参考例句:
  • He is one of Britain's best-known sculptors. 他是英国最有名的雕塑家之一。
  • Painters and sculptors are indexed separately. 画家和雕刻家被分开,分别做了索引。
37 depict Wmdz5     
vt.描画,描绘;描写,描述
参考例句:
  • I don't care to see plays or films that depict murders or violence.我不喜欢看描写谋杀或暴力的戏剧或电影。
  • Children's books often depict farmyard animals as gentle,lovable creatures.儿童图书常常把农场的动物描写得温和而可爱。
38 passionately YmDzQ4     
ad.热烈地,激烈地
参考例句:
  • She could hate as passionately as she could love. 她能恨得咬牙切齿,也能爱得一往情深。
  • He was passionately addicted to pop music. 他酷爱流行音乐。
39 determined duszmP     
adj.坚定的;有决心的
参考例句:
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
40 symbolically LrFwT     
ad.象征地,象征性地
参考例句:
  • By wearing the ring on the third finger of the left hand, a married couple symbolically declares their eternal love for each other. 将婚戒戴在左手的第三只手指上,意味着夫妻双方象征性地宣告他们的爱情天长地久,他们定能白头偕老。
  • Symbolically, he coughed to clear his throat. 周经理象征地咳一声无谓的嗽,清清嗓子。
41 domain ys8xC     
n.(活动等)领域,范围;领地,势力范围
参考例句:
  • This information should be in the public domain.这一消息应该为公众所知。
  • This question comes into the domain of philosophy.这一问题属于哲学范畴。
42 anecdote 7wRzd     
n.轶事,趣闻,短故事
参考例句:
  • He departed from the text to tell an anecdote.他偏离课文讲起了一则轶事。
  • It had never been more than a family anecdote.那不过是个家庭趣谈罢了。
43 bruises bruises     
n.瘀伤,伤痕,擦伤( bruise的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • He was covered with bruises after falling off his bicycle. 他从自行车上摔了下来,摔得浑身伤痕。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The pear had bruises of dark spots. 这个梨子有碰伤的黑斑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
44 swirl cgcyu     
v.(使)打漩,(使)涡卷;n.漩涡,螺旋形
参考例句:
  • The car raced roughly along in a swirl of pink dust.汽车在一股粉红色尘土的漩涡中颠簸着快速前进。
  • You could lie up there,watching the flakes swirl past.你可以躺在那儿,看着雪花飘飘。
45 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
46 triangular 7m1wc     
adj.三角(形)的,三者间的
参考例句:
  • It's more or less triangular plot of land.这块地略成三角形。
  • One particular triangular relationship became the model of Simone's first novel.一段特殊的三角关系成了西蒙娜第一本小说的原型。
47 darting darting     
v.投掷,投射( dart的现在分词 );向前冲,飞奔
参考例句:
  • Swallows were darting through the clouds. 燕子穿云急飞。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Swallows were darting through the air. 燕子在空中掠过。 来自辞典例句
48 genders 83bb1a3a9f58b3256de7992ae4edb965     
n.性某些语言的(阳性、阴性和中性,不同的性有不同的词尾等)( gender的名词复数 );性别;某些语言的(名词、代词和形容词)性的区分
参考例句:
  • There are three genders in German: masculine, feminine and neuter. 德语中有叁性:阳性、阴性和中性。 来自辞典例句
  • Japan was fourth among the genders of foreign students. 日本在二十个留美学生输送地中列第四位。 来自互联网
49 genetically Lgixo     
adv.遗传上
参考例句:
  • All the bees in the colony are genetically related. 同一群体的蜜蜂都有亲缘关系。
  • Genetically modified foods have already arrived on American dinner tables. 经基因改造加工过的食物已端上了美国人的餐桌。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 基因与食物
50 swapping 8a991dafbba2463e25ba0bc65307eb5e     
交换,交换技术
参考例句:
  • The slow swapping and buying of horses went on. 马匹的买卖和交换就是这样慢慢地进行着。
  • He was quite keen on swapping books with friends. 他非常热衷于和朋友们交换书籍。
51 saliva 6Cdz0     
n.唾液,口水
参考例句:
  • He wiped a dribble of saliva from his chin.他擦掉了下巴上的几滴口水。
  • Saliva dribbled from the baby's mouth.唾液从婴儿的嘴里流了出来。
52 actively lzezni     
adv.积极地,勤奋地
参考例句:
  • During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
  • We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。
53 celebrated iwLzpz     
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
参考例句:
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
54 harry heBxS     
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
参考例句:
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
55 intervention e5sxZ     
n.介入,干涉,干预
参考例句:
  • The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
  • Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。
56 uproar LHfyc     
n.骚动,喧嚣,鼎沸
参考例句:
  • She could hear the uproar in the room.她能听见房间里的吵闹声。
  • His remarks threw the audience into an uproar.他的讲话使听众沸腾起来。
57 censored 5660261bf7fc03555e8d0f27b09dc6e5     
受审查的,被删剪的
参考例句:
  • The news reports had been heavily censored . 这些新闻报道已被大幅删剪。
  • The military-backed government has heavily censored the news. 有军方撑腰的政府对新闻进行了严格审查。
58 random HT9xd     
adj.随机的;任意的;n.偶然的(或随便的)行动
参考例句:
  • The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
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