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Underresourced means not given enough of what you need to do the job — money, staff, equipment, time, space. It is nearly always said about an organisation or a service rather than about a person: an underresourced hospital, an underresourced school, an underresourced police force. The key idea is blame pointing . If I say a clinic is underresourced, I am not saying the nurses are bad; I am saying somebody higher up did not give them enough, and the failure is that person's. That is exactly why the word is popular in reports and in news: it explains a problem without insulting the people doing the work. You will see it written three ways — underresourced, under-resourced, and under resourced. The is the most common in British writing and is always safe. It is a formal word; in conversation people just say "they don't have enough money" or "they're short-staffed". It also pairs almost automatically with 'overstretched' and 'understaffed' — "an underfunded, overstretched service" is the shape the phrase usually takes.
資源不足的(經費、人力、設備都不夠)。中文常說「資源不足」「經費短缺」。
組成under- (not enough) + resourced (given resources). Resource goes back through French to Latin resurgere 'to rise again' — a resource is originally something that comes back up to help you when you are in trouble.
同家族的字
- underfundedsame under- 'not enough', built the same way — the money-only version
- understaffedsame pattern again, but about people
- resurrectshares Latin surgere 'to rise' with the -source part of resource
原始詞典資料2 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。
underresourcedadj詞源 1
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human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceHaving insufficient resources; poor or underfunded.
- Who was being served when mainstream media coverage focused on President Clinton's personal life rather than on issues in underresourced communities?
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。