Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish
if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one.Indeed, if he has a reputation for slaking
, you might even be outraged
. Such behavior is regarded as "all too human", with the underlying
assumption
that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance
. But a study by Sarah Brosman and Frans de Waal of Empir University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
vanish
vanish (vanishing, vanished, vanishes)
1.V-I If someone or something vanishes, they disappear suddenly or in a way that can not be explained. 突然消失;神秘失踪
2.V-I If something such as a species of animal or a tradition vanishes, it stops existing. 消亡
slake (slaking, slaked, slakes)
1.V-I If someone or something vanishes, they disappear suddenly or in a way that can not be explained. 突然消失;神秘失踪
2.V-I If something such as a species of animal or a tradition vanishes, it stops existing. 消亡