如何记忆discourage
2021-12-05 本文已影响0人
一朵康卫忠
Day 324 morning 2021
courage：勇气
来源于拉丁语 cor, cordis, n (心脏) , 来自词根 cor, 心，词源同 heart,。
进入古法语变为 corage (激情 , 渴望 , 怒气) 。
17世纪进入英语后意义范围缩小 , 仅表示“勇气 , 胆量”。
词根词缀： -cour- 心(脏) + -age 名词词尾
discourage：使泄气，使失去信心
词根词缀： dis- 否定 + -cour- 心(脏) + -age 名词词尾
That, however, is not my fault. The grown-ups discouraged me in my painter’s career when I was six years old, and I never learned to draw anything, except boas from the outside and boas from the inside.
