Conserve: to keep something from waste, damage, or change.(為了不受到浪費、破壞或改變而維持某種物質狀態之意)
由以下短文來了解這個單字的用法:
Energy conservation is not about making limited resources last as long as they can, that would mean that you are doing nothing more than prolong a crisis until you finally run out of energy resources all together. Conservation is the process of reducing demand on a limited supply and enabling that supply to begin to rebuild itself.
「–dece」這個字根來自拉丁文decere,表達bring、lead,原意為to bring back,經過時間的演變,意思變為to bring to a simpler or lower state帶到一個比較簡單或低一點的狀態;最後演變成今日的「diminish in size or amount」,減少之意。注意「-duce」這個字根非常常見,如多益常考的produce有製造的意思。
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