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.
即使知道勤奋的蚂蚁生活具有高度组织性的社会里，当看到大群蚂蚁在我们精心准备的午间野餐上爬行时，我们也无法抑制对它们的反感。
新概念英语第三册
Lesson 54 Instinct or cleverness
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
adj. 勤劳的，勤奋的;勤恳的，刻苦的;昧旦晨兴;手勤;
💡 industr勤勉 + ious 有...性质的 → adj.勤劳的,勤奋的
"If the tiller is industrious, the farmland is productive."
人勤地不懒.
近义：indefatigable, laborious, assiduous, persevering, persistent, relentless
反义：idle, indolent, loafing, negligent, shiftless, slack
n. 社会;上流社会;社团;社群;
adj. 上流社会的，社交界的;
💡 socie=social社会+ty表名词 → 社会，社团
"Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society."
文明社会憎恶种族主义。
近义：aristoi, community, institution, merging, partnership, brotherhood
反义：personhood, self, selfhood, distinctiveness, individual
vt. 预防;阻碍;阻止;[宗教]引领;
vi. 阻挠，阻止;
💡 pre预先+vent来→抢先一步，防止别人→防止，阻止
"The fence is strategically sited to prevent anyone getting onto the beach."
这个围栏的地点选择得很有策略,可以阻止任何人到海滩上.
近义：hinder, impede, inhibit, obstruct, obviate, avert
反义：promote, encourage, favor, favour, forward, foster
n. 剧变;抽回;厌恶，强烈的反感;[医] 诱导法;
💡 re相反，反对+vuls拉扯+ion表名词 → （感情）剧变，厌恶；强烈反感
"She felt a deep sense of revulsion at the violence."
她对这一暴行深恶痛绝。
近义：rebuff, recoil, rejection, repulse, repulsion, scunner
a. 博学的, 聪颖的, 精明的
近义：hip, informed, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, mindful
反义：silly, stupid, tomfool, unaware, uneducated, unenlightened