http://signup.dictionary.com/wordoftheday 这是我推荐的第一个字汇电子报，订阅之後系统每天会寄一个单字给你。 我使用了一年多了，受益良多。现在看到的版本，在排版上有改过，更为 reader-friendly 了。 今天 (2006/9/11) 的电子报如下，介绍的是 pejorative 这个字，我的 注解在旁边，这里向大家介绍它的好处。 ============================================================================== Word of the Day for Monday, September 11, 2006 pejorative \pih-JOR-uh-tiv\, adjective: => 单字，音标，词性。 => 音标不是我们熟悉的那种，但大概可以猜得出来，其中大写的地方是重音所在。 1. Tending to make or become worse. 2. Tending to disparage or belittle. 3. A belittling or disparaging word or expression. => 解释。 => 不只列出一个解释，可以让我们真正深入了解这个字。 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处。 => 很多人都知道，背单字要真正达到效果绝对不只是英文和中文翻译而已，而是要 看句子，看这个字的使用方法，这里连出处都写出来，其中包含报纸、书籍等等 ，让我们能学上下文，能学用此字时的情境，甚至知道哪些名人或作家是怎麽用 这个字的，我认为这是 Doctor Dictionary 做的最好的地方。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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。 => 最後提供关於此字的简单字源分析，说它简单是跟 M-W 的电子报比 (容後述)，让 我们可以从字源的角度去加深对此字的印象，并和其他同字源的字做联想。 ============================================================================== 好东西和大家分享，希望更多人能够受益。 --

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