- 1應得的（好事壞事都能用；壞事常說「罪有應得」）
When something is deserved, it comes to you because of what you did — the work, the skill, or the harm. A rest can be deserved after a long day. A prize can be deserved if you truly earned it. Punishment can be deserved too; English does not keep this word only for good things. You will meet it most as an adjective in front of a noun: a deserved win, a deserved break, a deserved . People also pile on well-deserved when they want to say nobody could fairly argue. Though actually, we also say you deserved better when the result did not match the effort — so the word is about whether the outcome fits the behaviour, not only about gifts. It is ordinary English, not a textbook-only word. The verb behind it is deserve: people deserve things; the things themselves are deserved.
From the word’s history
From Middle English deserven, from Old French deservir, from Latin dēserviō, from dē- + serviō 'serve'.
經古法文來自拉丁文 dēserviō，由 dē- 加 serviō「服務」組成。
組成deserve（應得）+ -ed，當形容詞用。
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
deservedadj/dɪˈzɜːvd/
- 1
Fair; merited.
- But though he thus abstained from power, his eldest son, the present Lord Morpeth, as Secretary for Ireland at a critical period, acquired a higher reputation and a more deserved popularity than any statesman who ever held that office.
- When the victim fails or refuses, the punishment is perceived as being more deserved.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。