【词汇大师】抓住根源(1/2)

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学习一下构建词汇，寻找一下词汇的根源所在~
TIPS
本篇只听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。
主持人的话①"So we've got a big key into our language here. Can we talk about some of these?"
主持人的话②"Three little ones."
主持人的话③ "Three babies."
HINTS
Latin and Greek
PS：文中有拼写的 t-r-i  l-e-t,  不需要听写"Basically half of all the words in the English language come from other languages. But the majority of those words come from the same source: Latin and Greek. And so if we learn certain Latin and Greek root words, we have kind of a window into the English language so that we're not always using dictionaries to help us understand words."
Let's imagine that we learn a couple of root words. One simple one is tri, which means three. The next one is let,  which comes at the end of a word, and that means small. So if we just start with this and we imagine people talking, the first person says, 'Has she had her baby yet?' The second person says, 'Yes, she had triplets.'"
"Exactly. This is a very simple example for us to learn the pieces, but we want to apply it to other things. So let's imagine a book and a booklet. What would be the difference?"