anti- 相反的: antiwar, antimatter, antinuclear。 counter- 相反: counteract, counterattack, contrary, contrast。
在每个看似“枯燥”的英语单词的背后其实是有“源”可寻、有“根”可思的。词根和词缀(前缀和后缀)某种程度上讲正是单词的“根源”,它们组成了英语中 80%的词汇,英语中的大部分单词是派生词,即通过词根词缀结合而形成的。
Thanks to droughts, floods and wars, serious faminesandstarvationdeaths hit China every few decades. Even during the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties, many people faced food shortage, as evident from many ancient poems.