One way to picture deserving: a pair of scales. On one side sits what a person has done, or the situation they are in. On the other sits something somebody might give them — money, help, a prize, praise, and now and then a punishment. When the two sides match, English calls that person deserving: the thing landing on them makes sense. One detail is worth holding on to. The person on the scales almost never uses this word about themselves; somebody else is doing the weighing.
From the word’s history
The packet gives no etymology for deserving beyond its link to the verb deserve, so no root story is claimed here.
資料只記到 deserving 是動詞 deserve 的 -ing 形式，沒有更早的來源，所以這裡不往下推。上面的天平是幫助理解的畫面，不是歷史說明。
Wiktionary form-of relation supplied in the evidence packet: deserving is the present participle and gerund of deserve.
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
deservingadj/dɪˈzɝvɪŋ/
- 1
Worthy of reward or praise; meritorious.
- the deserving poor
- 2
Meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)
- In the midst of a world war many centenaries pass unnoticed, but one which fell on August 2, namely, the opening of Fenchurch Street station, is deserving of record.
deservingnoun/dɪˈzɝvɪŋ/
- 1
desert, merit
- I here understand that value which every man puts upon his own deservings from the publick
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。