doom使...注定失?。篖ack of any single required characteristic dooms efforts at domestication, ?just as it dooms efforts at building a happy marriage.

would-be未來的：The?band's?success?has?inspired?hundreds?of?would-be?imitators.

detail attempts to/frustrate schemes...使...失敗/阻礙...企圖：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求偶儀式，nasty disposition，incurably dangerous，notoriously ferocious，r irascible temper，virtually impossible ?

in effect事實(shí)上， outset of sth...的開端