这篇文章复习《word power made easy》的第5章，Session 7-10。本章讨论各种职业以及同源单词。
Most people spend part of every workday at some gainful employment, honest or otherwise, and in so doing often contribute their little mite to the progress of the world.
职业
十种职业
- 心理学家: A psychologist.
- 精神分析学家: A psychoanalyst.
- 正齿医生: An orthodontist
- 验光师: An optometrist
- 眼镜商: An optician
- 整骨疗师: An osteopath
- 脊椎推拿治疗者: A chiropractor
- 足病医生: A podiatrist
- 笔相家: A graphologist
- 研究老年医学的专家: A gerontologist
词源
- 希腊词根
psyche意为spirit, soul, mind- psychic: A person's disturbance is psychic if it is emotional or mental, rather than physical.
- psychotherapist
- 希腊词根
pathos意为suffering or disease- psychopathy, psychopathic
- 希腊词根
soma意为body- psychosomatic: the powerful influence that the mind, especially the
unconscious, has on bodily disease.
- psychosomatic: the powerful influence that the mind, especially the
- 希腊词根
genesis意为birth or origin- psychogenic
- 词根
iatreia意为medical healing - 词根
logos意为science, study - 词根
odontos意为tooth- periodontist
- endodontist
- exodontist
- 词根
metron意为measurement- thermometer 温度计
- barometer 气压计
- sphygmomanometer 血压计
- 希腊词根
pous, podos意为foot- octopus 章鱼
- platypus 鸭嘴兽
- podium 讲台
- tripod 三脚架
- 希腊词根
cheir意为hand，在英文单词中拼写为chiro-- chirography 书法
- 希腊词根
mancy意为prediction- chiromancy 手相学
- 希腊词根
kallos意为beauty- calligrapher书法家
- 希腊词根
kakos意为bad, harsh- cacography
- 词根
graphein意为write- photograph "written by light"
- phonograph "written by sound"
- telegraph "distance writer"
- biography "life writing"
- 词根
geras意为old age- gerontological
- 拉丁词根
senex意为aging, growing old- senior
- senate 长者
- senile, senility 老的
- senescent 变老的
- adolescent 成长的，青少年的
- obsolescent 变旧的
- convalescent 康复的
