2. vulnerable   adjective   

原句: What makes sharks particularly vulnerable, despite their fearsome reputation.

意思: weak and easily hurt physically or emotionally

字源: early 17th cent.: from late Latin vulnerabilis, from Latin vulnerare ‘to wound’, from vulnus ‘wound’. 

例句: Old people are particularly vulnerable to the flu.



3. fearsome   adjective   

原句: What makes sharks particularly vulnerable, despite their fearsome reputation.

意思: making people feel very frightened 

例句: He has a fearsome reputation as a fighter.



4. reputation   noun [countable/uncountable]   

原句: What makes sharks particularly vulnerable, despite their fearsome reputation.

意思: the opinion that people have about what sb/sth is like, based on what has happened in the past

字源: Middle English: from Latin reputatio(n-), from reputare ‘think over’, from re- (expressing intensive force) + putare ‘think’. 

例句: The company enjoys a world-wide reputation for quality of design.



5. replica   noun   

原句: Telling fishing captains it would make their clients fiberglass replicas from measurements of the live shark before its release.

意思: a very good or exact copy of sth

字源: mid 18th cent. (as a musical term in the sense ‘a repeat’): from Italian, from replicare ‘to reply’. 

例句: Amy was a younger replica of her mother.