值得別人給的好東西
天平最直接的兩種用法。差別在於另一邊放的是什麼：一邊放的是需要的幫助，一邊放的是掙來的獎賞。
adjective · B2
Needing help and worth helping, especially with money — used about people, families, or causes that others should support.
值得幫助的
核心畫面
One way to picture deserving: a pair of scales. On one side sits what a person has done, or the situation they are in. On the other sits something somebody might give them — money, help, a prize, praise, and now and then a punishment. When the two sides match, English calls that person deserving: the thing landing on them makes sense. One detail is worth holding on to. The person on the scales almost never uses this word about themselves; somebody else is doing the weighing.
「deserving」可以想成一座天平。一邊放的是這個人做過的事，或者他現在的處境。另一邊放的是別人可能給他的東西—…更多收起
「deserving」可以想成一座天平。一邊放的是這個人做過的事，或者他現在的處境。另一邊放的是別人可能給他的東西——錢、幫助、獎、稱讚，偶爾也包括懲罰。當兩邊對得上，英文就說這個人 deserving：那樣東西落到他身上是說得通的。有一個細節值得記住。站在天平上的人幾乎不會這樣說自己。秤的動作，通常是別人在做。From the word’s history
The packet gives no etymology for deserving beyond its link to the verb deserve, so no root story is claimed here.
資料只記到 deserving 是動詞 deserve 的 -ing 形式，沒有更早的來源，所以這裡不往下推。上面的天平是幫助理解的畫面，不是歷史說明。
Wiktionary form-of relation supplied in the evidence packet: deserving is the present participle and gerund of deserve.
Two branches
正式句型：be deserving of something
這一支不是新的畫面，而是把同一座天平攤開成一個正式的句子框架，而且明白地允許另一邊放懲罰。
adjective · C1
If a person or thing is deserving of something, they have earned it and should get it. This is a formal way of saying deserve, and what they get can be good or bad.
應得（正式說法）
原始詞典資料4 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。
deservingadj/dɪˈzɝvɪŋ/
- 1
Worthy of reward or praise; meritorious.
- the deserving poor
- 2
Meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)
- In the midst of a world war many centenaries pass unnoticed, but one which fell on August 2, namely, the opening of Fenchurch Street station, is deserving of record.
deservingnoun/dɪˈzɝvɪŋ/
- 1
desert, merit
- I here understand that value which every man puts upon his own deservings from the publick
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。