■ under-

这是一个很有用的前缀，用了它，往往可以行文更为简短。

• The FDA has long been underfunded and understaffed. (US News & World Report, Sept. 15-22, 2008, p.27)药物食品管理局长期以来一直经费短缺，人手不足。

• -ee
• effect
• effective
• egg
• either
• elder
• eldest
• electric
• electrical
• electric 与 electrical
• else
• elusive
• embarrassed to
• emerge
• emergence
• emergency
• emergency 与 emergence
• emerge 与 immerge
• emigrant
• emigrant 与 immigrant
• empress
• end
• end
• ended
• ended 与 ending