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You Wenfeng, who belongs to China's tiny Hezhen ethnic group, is one of the few people in her community who can still make clothing from the skin of fish.

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China's 'mermaid descendants' weave final garments from skin of fish

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Thomas’s descendants included Aldous, a noted novelist, and Sir Julian, another evolutionary biologist much given to smiting deviants from Darwinism. And that is not to mention Anthony, a botanist, and Francis, an anthropologist. None of them, though, outshone Sir Andrew Huxley, for it was he who solved one of the most important biological mysteries of all—how nerve cells work, and thus, at bottom, how brains do.

1. Depart, begin a journey, as in The ship was heading out to sea, or When do youhead out again? 2. head out after. Follow or pursue, as in Since they knew the way, we headed out after them, or A police car headed out after the car thieves.

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descendant

Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛnd(ə)nt/

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Definition of descendant

noun

• a person, plant, or animal that is descended from a particular ancestor:she’s a descendant of Charles Darwin
• a machine, artefact, system, etc., that has developed from an earlier, more rudimentary version:house music is a descendant of disco

Origin:

late Middle English (as an adjective in the sense 'descending'): from French, present participle of descendre 'to descend' (see descend). The noun dates from the early 17th century

 smite

 (smīt)

v., smote (smōt), smit·ten (smĭt'n), or smote, smit·ing, smites.
v.tr.

1. 1. To inflict a heavy blow on, with or as if with the hand, a tool, or a weapon.
   2. To drive or strike (a weapon, for example) forcefully onto or into something else.
2. To attack, damage, or destroy by or as if by blows.
3. 1. To afflict: The population was smitten by the plague.
   2. To afflict retributively; chasten or chastise.
4. To affect sharply with great feeling: He was smitten by deep remorse.

v.intr.
To deal a blow with or as if with the hand or a hand-held weapon.

[Middle English smiten, from Old English smītan, to smear.]

smiter smit'er n.

• 発音記号[smáit]  [動]（smote 〔smóut〕, smit・ten 〔smítn〕 or smit 〔smít〕）((古))(他)

1 …を（…で）打つ, 強打する((with ...))；…を殴って（…の）状態にする.

2 …を打ち倒す；…に重傷を負わせる；《聖書》…を殺す；…をひどく懲らしめる［罰する］.

3 ((受身smittenで))（…に）感動する, （女性に）ほれる((with ...))；（病気などに）倒れる, やられる((with ...))

He was quite smitten with ［by］ the view.
その眺めに非常に感動した.

4 〈考え・音などが〉〈人・感覚器官などを〉襲う, 悩ます.

━━(自)

1 〈光・音・においなどが〉（…を）襲う((on, upon ...)).

2 （…を）強打する, 一撃を加える((at ...)).

━━[名]打撃, 一撃.

smít・er

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deviant[de・vi・ant]

• 発音記号[díːviənt] [形]（規範から）逸脱した, 異常な.

━━[名]逸脱した人［物］；（特に性的）倒錯者, 変質者.

-ance, -an・cy

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