這篇文章復(fù)習(xí)《word power made easy》的第5章眷昆，Session 7-10。本章討論各種職業(yè)以及同源單詞斤富。
Most people spend part of every workday at some gainful employment, honest or otherwise, and in so doing often contribute their little mite to the progress of the world.
職業(yè)
十種職業(yè)
- 心理學(xué)家: A psychologist.
- 精神分析學(xué)家: A psychoanalyst.
- 正齒醫(yī)生: An orthodontist
- 驗(yàn)光師: An optometrist
- 眼鏡商: An optician
- 整骨療師: An osteopath
- 脊椎推拿治療者: A chiropractor
- 足病醫(yī)生: A podiatrist
- 筆相家: A graphologist
- 研究老年醫(yī)學(xué)的專家: A gerontologist
詞源
- 希臘詞根
psyche意為spirit, soul, mind- psychic: A person's disturbance is psychic if it is emotional or mental, rather than physical.
- psychotherapist
- 希臘詞根
pathos意為suffering or disease- psychopathy, psychopathic
- 希臘詞根
soma意為body- psychosomatic: the powerful influence that the mind, especially the
unconscious, has on bodily disease.
- psychosomatic: the powerful influence that the mind, especially the
- 希臘詞根
genesis意為birth or origin- psychogenic
- 詞根
iatreia意為medical healing - 詞根
logos意為science, study - 詞根
odontos意為tooth- periodontist
- endodontist
- exodontist
- 詞根
metron意為measurement- thermometer 溫度計(jì)
- barometer 氣壓計(jì)
- sphygmomanometer 血壓計(jì)
- 希臘詞根
pous, podos意為foot- octopus 章魚
- platypus 鴨嘴獸
- podium 講臺
- tripod 三腳架
- 希臘詞根
cheir意為hand逛揩，在英文單詞中拼寫為chiro-- chirography 書法
- 希臘詞根
mancy意為prediction- chiromancy 手相學(xué)
- 希臘詞根
kallos意為beauty- calligrapher書法家
- 希臘詞根
kakos意為bad, harsh- cacography
- 詞根
graphein意為write- photograph "written by light"
- phonograph "written by sound"
- telegraph "distance writer"
- biography "life writing"
- 詞根
geras意為old age- gerontological
- 拉丁詞根
senex意為aging, growing old- senior
- senate 長者
- senile, senility 老的
- senescent 變老的
- adolescent 成長的沪猴，青少年的
- obsolescent 變舊的
- convalescent 康復(fù)的
