难道我们不知道人类在团结协作方面更胜一筹吗？而面对竞争对手，我们又何尝都是穷凶恶极的？

Don't we already know that people can be rather good at co-operating, and are not always mercilessly hostile towards their rivals?

youdao

我也知道了最大型的鳌鱼中，有些并非食肉性动物，不会像穷凶恶极的大白笙或双髻鳌一样具有攻击性。

I also learned that some of the biggest sharks are not carnivores, so they don't attack like the really vivious ones, like Great White sharks or Hammerhead sharks.

youdao

Enormity（穷凶恶极）的发音和enormous（庞大的）比较相近，正如先前提过的许多例子一样，对于发音相似的单词，人们也很容易认为它们的意思也一样。

Enormity sounds like enormous and as with many of our other examples, here we expect words that sound alike to have similar meanings.

youdao