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【词根词缀-应用篇】002:preci,scrib,cept,prehend

 Felix老师 2020-01-09

大家好,今天我们要学习的这段文字包含preci,scrib,cept,prehend等词根词缀,相对应的单词也都是非常重点的,一起来看看吧。

我们先看课文,摘自Henry Moore写的The Sculptor Speaks这本书,新概念第四册Lesson 31也摘录过这段文字。

Appreciation of sculpture depends upon the ability to respond to form in three dimensions.

对雕塑的鉴赏力取决于对立体的反应能力。

That is perhaps why sculpture has been described as the most difficult of all arts;

雕塑被说成是所有艺术中最难的艺术,可能就是这个原因。

certainly it is more difficult than the arts which involve appreciation of flat forms, shape in only two dimensions.

欣赏雕塑品当然比欣赏平面的艺术品要难。

Many more people are 'form-blind' than colour-blind.

“形盲”的人数比“色盲”的人数要多得多。

The child learning to see, first distinguishes only two-dimensional shape;

正在学看东西的儿童起初只会分辨二维形态,

it cannot judge distances, depths. Later, for its personal safety and practical needs, it has to develop (partly by means of touch) the ability to judge roughly three-dimensonal distances.

不会判断距离和深度。慢慢地,由于自身安全和实际需要,儿童必须发展(部分通过触觉)粗略判断三维空间距离的能力。

But having satisfied the requirements of practical necessity, most people go no further.

但是。大部分人在满足了实际需要后,就不再继续发展这种能力了。

Though they may attain considerable accuracy in the perception of flat form,

虽然他们对平面形的感觉能达到相当准确的程度,

they do not make the further intellectual and emotional effort needed to comprehend form in its full spatial existence.

但他们没有在智力和感情上进一步努力去理解存在于空间的整个形态。

1.appreciation n. 欣赏,鉴别;增值;感谢。

词根preci/pric】来源于拉丁语pretium,表示price(价格,价值):

appreciate v.增值;欣赏;(前缀a+词根首字母重复表示含义加强,-ate为动词后缀,示例单词appreciation是appreciate的名词形式)

depreciate v.贬值;轻视;(前缀de-表示否定)

precious a.珍贵的,价值高的;(-ous为形容词后缀)

2.describe v.描述,形容; 

【词根scrib/script】来源于拉丁语scribere ,表示write(写)。

prescribe v.开处方;(前缀-pre表示“提前”,提前写好药量→开处方)

inscribe v.雕刻,题写;(前缀-in表示“向里”,向里写→雕刻)

script n. 脚本;手迹;

3.perception n. 知觉;理解;看法;

【词根cept】来自拉丁语capere ,表示take(拿,取)

之前我在公众号里面分析过这个词根,并重点讲解了reception,concept,intercept这三个单词,点击链接查看:词根cept

前缀per(彻底)+cept(拿)+ion(名词后缀)=全部拿下→理解

4.comprehend v.理解

【词根prehend】来自拉丁语hendere,也表示take(抓,拿)

com(全部)+prehend(抓住)=全部抓住→理解;

comprehensive a.综合的,广泛的;

comprehension n.理解;U君相信大家应该都熟悉这个单词,比如我们在参加英语考试时都会碰到reading comprehension(阅读理解)和listening comprehension(听力理解)。

apprehend vt. 理解;逮捕;

好了,今天的词根词源小知识就讲到这里了,不知道你都记住了吗?

上期复习:【词根词缀-应用篇】001

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