为了顺利阅读,建议您先看公众号中的“A~Z解码”,了解英语字母的涵义和单词的造词原理与视角。 advance, 进步。ad-是ab-的变体,表“从,自...来(=from)”,后缀ance是ante的变体,表“前(=before)”,字母词根V,象形。前文提过,V=W=U,三个字母同源通转。V形表曲折,如via经由、取道(即拐弯走),way曲径,这里也指从...开始向前走,即进步、进展。 例句: May I advance my opinion on the matter? advantage 优势。ad-是ab-变体,表“自...来(=from)”,后缀ante与ance通转,表“前(=before)”,-age是名词后缀,所以,advantage与advance同根,优势就是比别人跑得快(如上图)。 例句: She took advantage of the children's absence to tidy their rooms. 拓展: advantageous 有利的;有好处的 例句: It may be advantageous for a firm to ship abroad the components of its finalproduct in a knocked down condition. disadvantage 不利因素;障碍;不便之处例句: Compared with him, I began to have a huge disadvantage. ad-前缀,表朝向(=to),-ure是名词后缀,词根vent表来(=come),V形表转折,引申指“取道、拐弯走、到来、走”,这里指“冒险、走危险的地方(如上图)”。 例句: He talked of his adventure all day long. 拓展: adventurer 冒险者,投机分子 例句: He is an adventurer in financial field. event,就是指大家走到一起,即公开活动、大事、事件 例句: It had been the smallest event of all that had unsettled him the most. eventually 最后;终于。-ual和-y是后缀,其中-ual=-ue+-al两个后缀组成。 例句: The British were expecting the United States eventually to pick up the cheque. invent发明,in-前缀,表“里面”,所以invent就是走进去(看到别人看不到的东西),即发明、编造。 例句: For Watt did not actually invent the steam engine. invention 发明;创造;虚构;编造 例句: Hitler complained that this single invention was the ruin of the U-boat campaign. prevent 阻止。pre-前缀,表“前(=before)”,vent表走、来(=come),在前方放一个障碍(如上图),让你走不过去,即阻碍、阻止、妨碍。 例句: But this did not prevent the parents unable to shake his head. 愿您的单词学习之路,越走越轻松。 ------------------------------------ 单词成就英语,英语照见未来
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