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Deprive means to take away something important that a person needs or wants, like sleep, food, freedom, or rights. It's almost always used with 'of': you deprive someone OF something. It often describes something ongoing or serious, not just a small, one-time loss.
剝奪(使某人失去必要或想要的東西,常搭配 deprive...of...)
組成This word probably comes from the same old Latin root as 'private' - a word originally about taking something away from public use, or setting it apart.
同家族的字
- privateprobably shares the same old Latin root, connected to the idea of taking or setting something apart
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
depriveverb/dɪˈpɹaɪv/
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Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
- "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
- If we had been deprived of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be deprived of philosophy.
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To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
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To bereave.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。