单词详解 | remedy

remedy
音标
英音/ ˈremədi / 美音/ ˈremədi /

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
The administration has maintained that the company should be held accountable for the cleanup cost and other remedies.
政府坚称该公司应对清理费用和其他补救措施负责。
New York Times

“We appreciate your patience while we remedied the situation,” race officials said in an open letter to fans.
赛事官员在致车迷的公开信中表示:“感谢您在我们解决问题期间的耐心等待。”
Washington Times

“But addressing those risks when pursuing criminal charges, the only means available to this office, is not the proper remedy here.”
“但是,在追究刑事指控时解决这些风险是该办公室可用的唯一手段,但并不是适当的补救措施。”
BBC

基本释意
noun
a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieves pain
解决方法,纠正方法;法定补偿(办法);治疗(法),药品;(硬币的)公差

同义词
curative,cure,therapeutic,redress,remediation,relieve,amend,rectify,remediate,repair

短释义
If you’re having trouble sleeping, the first remedy you might try is a hot bath and a cup of chamomile tea. If that doesn’t help, you may resort to something stronger, like a sedative. If a streetlight shining in your window is part of the problem, you can remedy the situation with some room-darkening shades. But if it’s your upstairs neighbors and their all-night partying that’s keeping you awake, you may have to consider a legal remedy.
补救措施是缓解或治愈问题或疾病的方法。芦荟是治疗晒伤的常用药物。

长释义
If you’re having trouble sleeping, the first remedy you might try is a hot bath and a cup of chamomile tea. If that doesn’t help, you may resort to something stronger, like a sedative. If a streetlight shining in your window is part of the problem, you can remedy the situation with some room-darkening shades. But if it’s your upstairs neighbors and their all-night partying that’s keeping you awake, you may have to consider a legal remedy.
如果您睡眠困难,您可以尝试的第一个补救措施是洗个热水澡并喝一杯甘菊茶。如果这没有帮助,你可以求助于更强效的药物,比如镇静剂。如果路灯照在你的窗户上是问题的一部分,你可以用一些使房间变暗的窗帘来解决这个问题。但如果是你楼上的邻居和他们彻夜的聚会让你睡不着觉,你可能需要考虑法律补救措施。

文学例句
She spent each contented night by the fire, learning from her gran to prepare and mix remedies.
她每天都在火边度过心满意足的夜晚,向奶奶学习如何准备和混合药物。
How to Disappear Completely by Ali Standish

She insulted and encouraged, pushed and poked, brewed and stewed and remedied.
她侮辱、鼓励、推挤、戳戳、酝酿、炖煮、补救。
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman

The remedy was, to thrust them forward into the centre of the schoolroom, and oblige them to stand there till the sermon was finished.
补救的办法是,把他们推到教室中央,强迫他们站在那里,直到布道结束。
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

词源
remedy (n.)c. 1200, remedie, “means of counteracting sin or evil of any kind; cure for a vice or temptation;” late 14c., “a cure for a disease or disorder, medicine or process which restores health;” 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-, here perhaps an intensive prefix (or perhaps literally, “again;” see re-), + mederi “to heal” (from PIE root *med- “take appropriate measures”).
Figurative use is from c. 1300. The meaning “legal redress; means for obtaining justice, redress, or compensation through a court” is by mid-15c.Related entries & more

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
补救措施 (n.)c. 1200,补救措施,“抵制任何形式的罪恶或邪恶的手段;治疗恶习或诱惑的方法;” 14c.后期,“治疗疾病或紊乱、恢复健康的药物或过程;”源自英法 remedie,古法语 remede “补救措施,治愈”(12c.,现代法语 remède),直接源自拉丁语 remedium “治愈,补救措施,药物,解毒剂,恢复健康的东西”,来自 re-,这里可能是密集前缀(或者字面上可能是“再次”;参见“re-”),+ mederi“治愈”(来自 PIE 根 *med-“采取适当措施”)。比喻用法来自c。 1300.“法律补救;通过法院获得正义、补救或赔偿的手段”的含义是 15c 中期。相关条目及更多


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