【例】The new laws deprived many people of the most elementary freedoms.新法律剝奪了許多人的最基本的自由。
【構詞】de-(離開)+prive(私有)→使不再私有→剝奪,使喪失
【同義替換】rob,strip
【派生】deprivation n.剝奪;貧窮,貧困 deprived a.貧困的;窮苦的
【真題】When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us give in to a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological conditions, until one day we find ourselves in a garden and feel the oppression vanish as if by magic.
【真題】Otherwise, academics will continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which they study, investigate and criticize.
否則,學術界將繼續這樣危險的思考,日益脫離他們所研究、探討與批判的社會。
desirable
a.值得做的;合意的,稱心的;期望得到的
【例】Reforming consumer subsidy programs, though desirable, is not easy.改革消費補貼方案雖然有必要,但實行起來并非易事。