1、4.14-Understand Human Charactersvirtues and vices: ph. 善与恶impulsive: adj. proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus 冲动的，受感情驱使的hot-tempered: adj. quickly aroused to anger 暴躁的，性急的quick-tempered: adj. quickly aroused to anger 易怒的slight: v. to pay no attention to, disrespect 轻
2、视，忽略indignant: adj. angered at something unjust or wrong 愤愤不平的；义愤的sanguine: adj. confidently optimistic and cheerful 乐观的；热血的disposition: n. your usual mood 性情，性格exalted: adj. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style 高尚的malicious: adj. having the nature of or resulting from ma
3、lice 恶意的insolence: n. the trait of being rude and impertinent 傲慢，傲慢无礼cynical: adj. believing the worst of human nature and motives愤世嫉俗的distrustful: adj. having or showing distrust 怀疑的，不信任的suspicious of: ph. 对起疑，怀疑small-minded: adj. contemptibly narrow in outlook 心胸狭窄的cowardly: adj. lacking courage;
4、ignobly timid and faint-hearted 怯懦的，懦弱的chilly: adj. very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency 冷漠的utility: n. the quality of being of practical use 效用love of gain: ph .利欲the Mean: ph. （亚里士多德的）中庸之道deficiency: n. lack of an adequate quantity or number 缺乏，不足intemperate: adj. excessive in b
5、ehavior 放纵的，无节制的temperate: adj. not extreme in behavior 适度的，有节制的moderation: n. the trait of avoiding excesses 适度，节制fitness: n. the condition of being suitable 适当，适合性ancestral: adj. of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor 祖先的contemptuous: adj. expressing extreme contempt 轻蔑的degenerate: v. gr
6、ow worse 退化，恶化insolent: adj. marked by casual disrespect 无礼的，傲慢的arrogant: adj.having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride自大的，傲慢的luxurious: adj. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses豪华的，奢侈的ostentatious: adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulga
7、r 浮华的，铺张的vulgar: adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste 粗俗的，庸俗的Simonides: n.a lyric poet 西蒙尼德斯（古希腊诗人）self-indulgence:n. excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence 放纵，自我放纵manly: adj. possessing qualities befitting a man 男子气概的，男子气概的dignified: adj.having or expressing dignity 有尊严的piety: n. righteousness by virtue of being pious 虔诚correspond to:ph.符合于，对应的adjust to: ph. 调整以适应varied:adj. widely different 各式各样的，不同类型的probable:adj. likely but not certain to be or become true or real 很可能的；大概率的1
