retaliation n. 报复，报仇

Our retaliation was to put twelve Mills bombs into the building.
我们的报复手段是投掷十二枚蛋形手榴弹到该建筑物内

analogous adj. 相似的, 可比拟的

Brains and computers are often considered analogous.
人脑和电脑常被认为是类似的。

pecking-order 任何团体中之长幼尊卑次序

Be aware of your pecking order in the arrangement.
那就留心一下约会对象的社会地位。

ethnologist n. 民族学者,人种学者　

correlate vt. & vi. 有相关性

These figures seem to correlate.
这些数字看来是相关的。