[推薦] Doctor Dictionary 字彙電子報

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        這是我推薦的第一個字彙電子報，訂閱之後系統每天會寄一個單字給你。
        我使用了一年多了，受益良多。現在看到的版本，在排版上有改過，更為
        reader-friendly 了。

        今天 (2006/9/11) 的電子報如下，介紹的是 pejorative 這個字，我的
        註解在旁邊，這裡向大家介紹它的好處。

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Word of the Day for Monday, September 11, 2006

  pejorative \pih-JOR-uh-tiv\, adjective:

=> 單字，音標，詞性。
=> 音標不是我們熟悉的那種，但大概可以猜得出來，其中大寫的地方是重音所在。

1. Tending to make or become worse.
2. Tending to disparage or belittle.
3. A belittling or disparaging word or expression.

=> 解釋。
=> 不只列出一個解釋，可以讓我們真正深入瞭解這個字。

Citing the construction industry, car dealers, and politicians as the
purveyors of "sprawl" (a pejorative term that does not even allow for the
possibility of benefits associated with low-density development), Kunstler
fails to consider the role of market forces.

-- Julia Hansen, "letter to the editor", The Atlantic, December 1996

While he said that he is not a "fanboy," mildly pejorative slang for an
aggressively obsessive "Star Wars" fan, he did mention that the John Williams
"Star Wars" theme was played at his wedding reception two years ago.

-- Michel Marriott, "On a Galaxy of Sites, 'Star Wars' Fever Rises", New York
Times, May 6, 1999

Welfare state is now, even for the Labour party whose grand historic
achievement it was, obscurely shameful. A pejorative for our times.

-- John Sutherland, "How the potent language of civic life was undermined",
The Guardian, March 20, 2001

=> 使用此字的句子及其出處。
=> 很多人都知道，背單字要真正達到效果絕對不只是英文和中文翻譯而已，而是要
   看句子，看這個字的使用方法，這裡連出處都寫出來，其中包含報紙、書籍等等
   ，讓我們能學上下文，能學用此字時的情境，甚至知道哪些名人或作家是怎麼用
   這個字的，我認為這是 Doctor Dictionary 做的最好的地方。

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Pejorative is derived from the past participle of Late Latin pejorare, "to
make worse, to become worse," from Latin pejor, "worse."

=> 字源分析。
=> 最後提供關於此字的簡單字源分析，說它簡單是跟 M-W 的電子報比 (容後述)，讓
   我們可以從字源的角度去加深對此字的印象，並和其他同字源的字做聯想。
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