remedy

英 ['rem?d?] 美['r?m?di]

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復(fù)數(shù):?remedies;第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù):?remedies;過(guò)去式:?remedied;過(guò)去分詞:?remedied;現(xiàn)在分詞:?remedying;

remedy 補(bǔ)救，糾正，改正

re-,表強(qiáng)調(diào)，-med,救治，詞源同 medical,medicine.

remedy: remedy: [13] Remedy is closely related to medicine. It comes via Anglo-Norman remedie from Latin remedium ‘medicine’ a noun formed from the same stem, med-, as produced medērī ‘heal’ (source of English medical, medicine, etc). The extension in meaning from ‘medicine’ to ‘something that corrects a wrong’ took place in Latin.
=> medicine
remedy (n.): c. 1200, "cure for a disease or disorder; means of counteracting an evil," from Anglo-French remedie, Old French remede "remedy, cure" (12c., Modern French remède) and directly from Latin remedium "a cure, remedy, medicine, antidote, that which restores health," from re-, intensive prefix (or perhaps literally, "again;" see re-), + mederi "to heal" (see medical (adj.)). Figurative use from c. 1300.
remedy (v.): c. 1400, from Old French remedier or directly from Latin remediare, from remedium (see remedy (n.)). Related: Remedied; remedying.

1. Camomile has long been used as a remedy for teething babies.: 春黃菊長(zhǎng)期以來(lái)一直用作減輕嬰兒出牙時(shí)的不適的藥物。

2. Their remedy lay within the range of existent technology.: 他們的治療方法利用現(xiàn)有技術(shù)可以實(shí)現(xiàn)。

3. I'll try a herbal remedy to calm him down.: 我來(lái)用草藥試試，看能不能讓他鎮(zhèn)靜下來(lái)。