Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch.
即使知道勤奮的螞蟻生活具有高度組織性的社會里，當看到大群螞蟻在我們精心準備的午間野餐上爬行時，我們也無法抑制對它們的反感。
新概念英語第三冊
Lesson 54 Instinct or cleverness
?? 句中詞匯解析
從本句中提取的重要詞匯
adj. 勤勞的，勤奮的;勤懇的，刻苦的;昧旦晨興;手勤;
?? industr勤勉 + ious 有...性質的 → adj.勤勞的,勤奮的
"If the tiller is industrious, the farmland is productive."
人勤地不懶.
近義：indefatigable, laborious, assiduous, persevering, persistent, relentless
反義：idle, indolent, loafing, negligent, shiftless, slack
n. 社會;上流社會;社團;社群;
adj. 上流社會的，社交界的;
?? socie=social社會+ty表名詞 → 社會，社團
"Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society."
文明社會憎惡種族主義。
近義：aristoi, community, institution, merging, partnership, brotherhood
反義：personhood, self, selfhood, distinctiveness, individual
vt. 預防;阻礙;阻止;[宗教]引領;
vi. 阻撓，阻止;
?? pre預先+vent來→搶先一步，防止別人→防止，阻止
"The fence is strategically sited to prevent anyone getting onto the beach."
這個圍欄的地點選擇得很有策略,可以阻止任何人到海灘上.
近義：hinder, impede, inhibit, obstruct, obviate, avert
反義：promote, encourage, favor, favour, forward, foster
n. 劇變;抽回;厭惡，強烈的反感;[醫] 誘導法;
?? re相反，反對+vuls拉扯+ion表名詞 → （感情）劇變，厭惡；強烈反感
"She felt a deep sense of revulsion at the violence."
她對這一暴行深惡痛絕。
近義：rebuff, recoil, rejection, repulse, repulsion, scunner
a. 博學的, 聰穎的, 精明的
近義：hip, informed, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, mindful
反義：silly, stupid, tomfool, unaware, uneducated, unenlightened