1.hubris  （excessive pride or self-confidence）傲慢，自大

原句：HUBRIS winds through the history of genetics like a double helix.

2.double helix    双螺旋

3.unravel    （使）解开，（使）松开（缠绕、编织物等）

原句：Unravelling the genetic code would bring an exquisite understanding of bodies and their afflictions but also of minds.

4.exquisite  精美的；精致的

5.affliction    疾病；痛苦

6.human genome project  人类基因组计划

7.susceptibility  易感性

原句：Individuals’ physical or mental characteristics, and their susceptibility to diseases, turned out to be extraordinarily complex.

8.swagger    n.趾高气扬

原句：Some of the swagger went out of genetics. Now it is back.

9.advance    n.发展

原句：In “Blueprint” Robert Plomin, a psychologist and geneticist, explains the advances behind this resurgent optimism—and their consequences for the science of human behaviour and psychiatric illness.

10.resurgent  adj.复苏的；复兴的；重新产生的

11.psychiatric    adj.精神病的

12.interplay  n.内在联系

原句：He is well placed to do so: for more than 30 years he has studied the interplay of genes and the environment and their effects on personality