■ 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。

• stage
• stand
• start
• state
• state
• state
• statesman
• stationary
• stationary 与 stationery
• stationery
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• stead
• stead
• steady
• steady 与 sturdy
• still
• still others
• still 与 yet
• stipulation
• stop
• storey
• story
• stranger
• strategy
• strategy 与 tactics