■ 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。

• overwhelming majority
• own
• ox
• package
• pain
• painful
• painter
• pain 与 painful 及 ache, hurt
• pair
• paradigm
• parameter
• part and parcel
• partial
• partially
• partially 与 partly
• partisan
• partly
• partner
• part of
• party
• pass
• passive
• past
• past year
• past year