Unit 84

deprive / derive / deride / deprave

deprive v. 使丧失，剥夺 (to take something away from) /dɪˈprʌɪv/

• Flamingos will lose their pink coloring if they are deprived of shrimp to eat.

derive v. 得到 (to take or get something from something else) /dɪˈrʌɪv/

• Mathematicians use formulas to derive answers and proofs to check their work.

v. 起源 (to have or to originate)

• Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans.

deride v. 嘲笑 (to laugh at contemptuously) /dɪˈrʌɪd/

• Jason was a bully who took pleasure in pranking his fellow students and then deriding them with guffaws.

deprave v. 堕落 (to corrupt morally) /dɪˈpreɪv/

• During the 1960s, many American religious leaders claimed that The Beatles' music was depraved and would corrupt the youth.

repulsive / impulsive

repulsive adj. 令人厌恶的 (arousing aversion or disgust) /rɪˈpʌlsɪv/

• The rotting corpse was so repulsive that Sylvia had to fight the urge to vomit.

impulsive adj. 冲动的，不加思索的 (doing things or tending to do things suddenly and without careful thought) /ɪmˈpʌlsɪv/

• Lydia's tendency to make impulsive purchases, without considering her finances, made her short of money each month.

bane / bale

bane n. 祸害 (a source of harm or ruin) /beɪn/

• Heroin and similar opioid drugs are a serious bane on society because they are so addictive that users lose interest in everything but their next fix.

bale n. 灾祸，不行 (great evil) /beɪl/

• The psychiatrists did their best to rescue the serial killer from the bale of his own twisted mind.

n. 包，捆 (a large bundle of goods)

• Longshoremen are employed at ports to shift large bales of goods from boats to trucks and vice versa.