We have been brought up to fear insects.

bring sb. ↔ up ^{把某人抚养大}

• I brought up my seven children single-handed. ^{我独自带大了7个孩子。}
• I am not going to bring up my child in this hole. ^{我不会在这个鬼地方养育孩子的。}
• Many women still take career breaks to bring up children. ^{许多妇女仍然为养育孩子而中断事业。}

高考阅读：I have been brought up to believe that it is proper to make contributions to charity.
六级阅读：And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better.

We regard them as unnecessary creatures that do more harm than good.

regard ... as ... ^{把... 看着成...}

• I mean, what people regard as luck you can actually create to a degree. ^{我的意思是，实际上你可以在一定程度上创造出人们所认为的运气。}
• That, believe it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news. ^{信不信由你，家长们认为的好消息可能就是这其中一项发现。}
• To do something my brain would regard as creative. ^{做一些我的大脑认为有创造性的事情。}

do more harm than good ^{【idiom】弊大于利}

• Raising speed limits may do more harm than good.
• Mandatory quotas do more harm than good. ^{强制配额弊大于利。}
• If you act willfully, it may do more harm than good. ^{如果你一意孤行，那可能弊多利少。}
• This measure will do more good than harm. ^{这项措施利多弊少。}

in more ways than one ^{【idiom】有不只一方面的含义}

• Considering the amount she paid, he was dear in more ways than one! 

We continually wage war on them, for they contaminate our food, carry diseases, or devour our crops.

continually ^{adv. 不断地；频繁地}

• Almost immediately he began to complain about the weather, for even though it was still summer, it rained continually and it was often bitterly cold.

contaminate ^{v. to make sth. dirty, polluted, or poisonous by adding a chemical, waste, or infection 污染…}

• Flies contaminate food.
• Industrial sewage continues to contaminate our beaches.

carry ^{v. if a person, animal, or insect carries a disease, they can pass it to other people or animals even if they are not ill themselves 携带病菌，传播疾病}

• Many serious diseases are carried by insects. 

devour  ^{v. 吞食；毁灭}

• Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake.
• Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals.

They sting or bite without provocation; they fly uninvited into our rooms on summer nights, or beat against our lighted windows.

uninvited ^{adj. 未经邀请的}

• He came uninvited to one of Stein's parties. ^{他不请自来地去了斯坦因的一个聚会。}
• He turned up uninvited. ^{他不请自到了。}
• But we were uninvited. ^{但是我们没被邀请。}

“上午、下午、晚上”如果有形容词或名词修饰限定的话，一般都用介词on

• on a Monday night
• on a sunny afternoon

lighted ^{adj. 含义1. a lighted window, room etc. is bright because there is a light on inside 亮着灯的}

• a lighted window / room
• The building was lighted up brightly. ^{这座建筑灯火通明。}

lighted ^{adj. 含义2. a lighted candle, match etc. is burning at one end 点着的}

• a lighted candle / match
• Never use lighted candles. ^{不要用点燃的蜡烛。}
• Those fireworks lighted the sky. ^{那些烟火点亮了天空。}

We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths.

live in dread of ^{一直(都)害怕}

• I live in dread of losing her love. 
• They live in the dread of forest fire. ^{他们住的地方时常担心有森林火灾的发生。}
• The Jews lived in dread of being caught. ^{生活在会遭到拘捕的恐惧之中。}
• We lived in mortal dread of him discovering our secret. ^{因为害怕他发现我们的秘密，我们终日惶恐不安。}

dread sth. / doing ^{害怕做某事、某事反生}

• He dreaded having to spend Christmas in hospital. 

not only … but（aslso） ^平行结构

• I not only spoke English very carefully, but very clearly as well.
• Gifts poured in not only from unknown people, but from baby food and soap manufacturers who wished to advertise their products.
• Shops cater for the do-it-yourself craze not only by running special advisory services for novices, but by offering consumers bits and pieces which they can assemble at home.
• This hobby educates one not only in the chosen subject, but also in general matters which have some bearing on it.

Reading about them increases our understanding without dispelling our fears.

dispel ^{v. 英文解释：to make sth. go away, esp. a belief, idea, or feeling 驱散，打消}

• dispel doubts / fears / worries / rumors / hesitations / prejudice … ^{驱散了… 、打消了…}
• This brief experiment would dispel any further doubts you might have.