词汇学常见词缀探究.doc

Prefixes and suffixes Negative prefixes（否定前缀）:“not”---”不…，非。。。” a-: ‘not, without, opposite to’ as in apolitical, asexual, atypical, asocial, amoral dis-: ‘not, the converse of’ as in disobey, discredit, disloyal, disorder, disuse in- ：(il-, ir-, im-): same in meaning as for dis- as in inaudible, injustice, illiterate, illegitimate, irresistible, irresponsibility, improbable, immature non-: ‘not’, a productive affix expressing the idea that a person or thing does not have the qualities or characteristics referred to, as in non-classical, non-smoker, non-violence, non-president, non-virtue un-（