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doom使...注定失败：Lack of any single required characteristic dooms efforts at domestication,  just as it dooms efforts at building a happy marriage.

would-be未来的：The band's success has inspired hundreds of would-be imitators.

detail attempts to/frustrate schemes...使...失败/阻碍...企图：That's what derailed attempts to domesticate cheetahs, the  swiftest of all land animals, despite our strong motivation to do so for  thousands of years.  

infinitely suerior比...好得多:We have a relationship infinitely superior to those of many of our friends

courtship ritual求偶仪式，nasty disposition，incurably dangerous，notoriously ferocious，r irascible temper，virtually impossible  

in effect事实上， outset of sth...的开端