salve

C1 FREQ #26486

n. 油膏, 药膏, 安慰, 奉承话 vt. 涂油膏于, 安慰, 缓和, 抢救, 打捞

发音

UK /sɑːv/
UK /sælv/
US /sæ(l)v/

词形变化

salves 复数 salves salves 三单 salving 现在分词 salved 过去式 salved 过去分词

释义与例句

n. C1
  1. 1.

    An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.

    药膏

    软膏

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

    可数 不可数

    Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.

v.
  1. 1.

    To calm or assuage.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.

  3. 3.

    To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.

  4. 4.

    To salvage.

    过时
  5. 1.

    To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).

    废旧 天文
  6. 2.

    To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).

    废旧
  7. 3.

    To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

    废旧
  8. 1.

    To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.

    及物
interj.
  1. 1.

    Hail; a greeting.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

ointment balm unction unguent

上位词 6

cure remedy therapeutic redress curative remediation

下位词 8

arnica baby oil balsam Carron oil cerate chrism chrisom lip balm

部分词 3

lanolin wool fat wool grease
动词

同义词 3

save relieve salvage

上位词 4

medicine deliver rescue medicate

相关短语

salve bug salve bugs Salve Regina Salve Reginas black salve lip salve weapon-salve

词源

From Middle English salve, from Old English sealf, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu, from Proto-Germanic *salbō, from Proto-Indo-European *solp-éh₂, from *selp- (“salve, ointment”). Cognates Cognate with Middle Low German salve (Danish salve, Dutch zalf), Old High German salba (German Salbe), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃 (salbōns), Albanian gjalpë (“butter”), Sanskrit सर्पिस् (sarpís), Ancient Greek ἔλπος (élpos).

来源：wiktionary