1.crest n.頂部(peak)

例:the crests of waves浪尖

2.criminology n.犯罪學(the scientific study of crime as a social phenomenon, of criminals, and of penal treatment)

詞根記憶：crimin(犯罪)+ology(學科)一犯罪學

例:The police detective took courses in criminology.

3.cripple n.瘸子(a lame or partly disabled person or animal);v.使…成殘廢(to deprive of the use of a limb and especially aleg)

詞根記憶：和creep(v.爬行)一起記

例:His right hand and arm were cripOled by a sniper's bullet during the First World War.

派生詞：crippling(a．極有害的)

4.criteria n.標準(measure of value)

詞根記憶：crit(評斷)+eria--判斷的手段--標淮

例:They invoke four principal criteria for determining climatic conditions existing in the past.

5.criterion n.評判的標準，尺度(standard by which sth. is judged)

詞根記憶：crit(判斷)+er(看作err錯誤)+ion--評判的標準

注意：復數形式criteria

例:Using acrrterion based on an object's color, astronomers recently identified 23 galaxies so distant from Earth that their light has taken 85 percent of the age of the universe to reach us.

6.critic n．評論家，批評家(one who engages often professionally in the analysis,evaluation, or appreciation of works, of art or artistic performances)

詞根記憶：crit(評斷)+ic--做評斷的人--評論家

例:The cribcs are correct on this point.

派生詞：critical(a.批評的；關鍵的)；criticism(n.評判，批評)；criticize(v.批評；評論)

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
生活中最大的幸福是堅信有人愛我們。

——法國小說家雨果(VictorHugo, French novelist)