网友回答：31. core values upon which any (democratic ) society depends to thrive. 一个社会赖以繁荣的价值核心32. be superior (in …) to … 比更好，更优秀e.g. this engine is superior in every respect to that. || whenever moving images are central toan event the video camera is superior to a written word.33. proceeding n.行动, 进行,会议录, 学报 （legal proceeding || governmental proceedings）34. thwart v.反对；妨碍；挫败e.g. thegovernment’s strategies for thwarting specific plans of an internationalterrorist or a drug trafficker.
网友回答：continuing controversy 长久未解决的问题anything but决不是run contrary to common sense and daily experience 与常理相悖Any government, which is blind to this point, will pay a heyprice. 政府职责spare no effort to 不遗余力even if; even assuming 即使常用难拼的学科及学家anthropologist 人类, archeologist 考古, biochemist 生物化学, geologist 地质, linguist 语言, astronomer 天文, psychoanalyst 精神分析， philosopher 哲学家1. counterproductive adj.产生相反效果（结果）的e.g. It is counterproductive tobe too tough: it just makes the staff re
