后缀：-ing ①[名词后缀]

1、构成抽象名词，表示行为、状态、情况及其他

learning 学问，学识

feeling 感觉

shopping 买东西

walking 步行，散步

farming 耕作

schooling 教育

teaching 教导

ageing 老化

sleeping 睡眠

swimming 游泳

shipping 装运

broadcasting 广播

2、表示...行业、...学、...术、...法

tailoring 裁缝业

shoemaking 制鞋业

banking 银行业，银行学

accounting 会计学，会计

hairdressing 理发业

bonesetting 正骨法

sailing 航海术，航法

boxing 拳术

3、表示总称及材料（与...有关之物，制...所有的材料）

clothing 衣服

hatting 制帽材料

bedding 床上用品

fleshing 肉色紧身衣

sacking 麻袋布

shirting 衬衫料

bagging 制袋用的材料

coating 上衣衣料

felting 制毡材料

4、表示某种行为的产物，为某种行为而用之物、与某种行为有关之物，与某种事物有关之物

building 建筑物，楼房

carving 雕刻物

holding 占有物

giving 给予物，礼物

colouring 颜料

winning 赢得物，锦标

filling 填充物，填料

legging 护腿，绑腿

footing 立足处，立足点

washing 待洗的衣服

②[形容词后缀]

表示“...的”、“正在...的”、“...着的”、“使...的”

changing 正在变化的

burning 燃烧的

fighting 战斗的

developing 发展中的

rising 上升的

encouraging 振奋人心的

surprising 使人惊讶的

exciting 使人兴奋的

growing 成长中的

falling 下降的

③[构成介词]

excepting 除...之外

regarding 关于

concerning 关于

failing 如果没有

during 在...期间

considering 考虑到，就...而论

词根词缀：agryp-

【来源及含义】Greek: sleeplessness, wakefulness; originally, it meant "sleeping in the field"

【同源单词】agrypnetic, agrypnia, agrypnia senilis, agrypnocoma, agrypnode, agrypnotic

词根词缀：coimetro-, coimetr-; koimetro-, koimetr-

【来源及含义】Greek: koimeterion, sleeping-room, burial-place; grave, grave yard; final resting place

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word groups that are related, directly or indirectly, to: "bury, burial, cemetery, grave; sleeping place": Epitaphs; funer-; sepulc-; sheol; tapho-.

【同源单词】cemetery, coimetromania, coimetrophilia, coimetrophiliac, coimetrophobia

词根词缀：dorm-, dormi-

【来源及含义】Latin: sleep, sleeping

【相关词根词缀】 Related "sleep" units: hypno-; letho-; narco-; oneiro- (dream); somni-; sopor-.

【同源单词】condorm, dorm, dormant, dormer, dormeuse, dormient

词根词缀：funer-, funero-, fun-

【来源及含义】Latin: burial; death rites, burial ceremony

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word groups that are related, directly or indirectly, to: "bury, burial, cemetery, grave; sleeping place": coimetro-; Epitaphs; sepulc-; sheol; tapho-.

【同源单词】funebrial, funeral, funeral, funeral arrangements, funeral chapel, funeral customs

词根词缀：hiber-

【来源及含义】Latin: winter, wintered, wintry; it also refers to: sleep, sleeping; inactive, inactivity; dormant, dormancy [suspended animation or a lack of activity]

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word families that are related directly or indirectly to "winter, freezing, frost, and/or cold": algid- (cold, chilly); cheimo-, chimo- (winter, cold); crymo-, krymo- (cold, chill, frost); cryo-, kryo-; (cold, freezing); pago- (cold, freezing); psychro- (cold); rhigo- (cold, frost; shiver).

【同源单词】Animals, artificial hibernation, hibernacle, hibernaculum, hibernal, hibernate

词根词缀：morpho-, morph-, -morphous, -morphically, -morphia, -morphosis, -morphously, -morphy, -morphic, -morphism

【来源及含义】Greek: shape, form, figure, appearance

【相关描述】The Roman god of sleep is Somnus; so, when we are sleepy, we are "somnolent". Sleep walking is "somnambulism" which in Latin means exactly the same thing; that is, "sleepwalking".

The son of Somnus is Morpheus, the god of dreams, indicating that sleep gives birth to dreams. Morpheus goes back through Latin to the Greek word for "form" or "shape" because dreams are forms and shapes developed in the mind while sleeping.

【相关词根词缀】 Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units dealing with "form, shape, appearance": eido-; figur-; form-; icono-; ideo-; imag-; -oid; typo-.

【同源单词】acrostomorphilia, actinomorphic, actinomorphous, actinomorphy, adelomorphous, aeromorphosis

词根词缀：sepulc-, sepul-

【来源及含义】Latin: to bury; a grave, a tomb

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word groups that are related, directly or indirectly, to: "bury, burial, cemetery, grave; sleeping place": coimetro-; Epitaphs; funer-; sheol; tapho-.

【同源单词】sepulcher, sepulchral, sepulchrally, sepultural, sepulture, vivisepulture

词根词缀：somni-, somno-, somn-, -somnia, -somniac

【来源及含义】Latin: sleep, sleeping; dreams, dreaming

【相关词根词缀】 Related "sleep" units: dorm-; hypno-; letho-; narco-; oneiro- (dream); sopor-.

【同源单词】cacosomnia, dyssomnia, dyssomniac, dyssomniac, hypersomnia, hypersomniac

词根词缀：tapho-, taph-, -taphia

【来源及含义】Greek: burial, grave; tomb; funeral

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word groups that are related, directly or indirectly, to: "bury, burial, cemetery, grave; sleeping place": coimetro-; Epitaphs; funer-; sepulc-; sheol.

【同源单词】bibliotaph, bibliotaphist, bibliotaphy, cenotaph, cenotaphic, epitaph