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单词 salvage
释义
salvage
(sælvɪdʒ )
Word forms: salvages , salvaging , salvaged
1. verb [usually passive]
If something is salvaged, someone manages to save it, for example from a ship that has sunk, or from a building that has been damaged.
The team's first task was to decide what equipment could be salvaged. [be VERB-ed]
The investigators studied flight recorders salvaged from the wreckage. [VERB-ed]
Synonyms: save, recover, rescue, restore  
2. uncountable noun [oft NOUN noun]
Salvage is the act of salvaging things from somewhere such as a damaged ship or building.
The salvage operation went on.
...the cost of salvage.
3. uncountable noun
The salvage from somewhere such as a damaged ship or building is the things that are saved from it.
They climbed up on the rock with their salvage.
Synonyms: scrap, remains, waste, junk  
4. verb
If you manage to salvage a difficult situation, you manage to get something useful from it so that it is not a complete failure.
Officials tried to salvage the situation. [VERB noun]
Diplomats are still hoping to salvage something from the meeting. [VERB noun from noun]
5. verb
If you salvage something such as your pride or your reputation, you manage to keep it even though it seems likely you will lose it, or you get it back after losing it.
We definitely wanted to salvage some pride for British tennis. [VERB noun]
She was lucky to be able to salvage her career. [VERB noun]
Collocations:
salvage a situation
He got off to a poor start and was unable to salvage the situation.
Times, Sunday Times
He sought to salvage the situation by bringing the discussion back on to more familiar ground.
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But rather than salvage the situation with a hoik into touch, he made a perilous situation terminally bad.
Times, Sunday Times
I kept thinking we would turn a corner, that people would come together and salvage the situation.
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Some sincere contrition might have belped to salvage the situation.
Times, Sunday Times
salvage a wreck
The survivors began to salvage the wreck for usable items.
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Given the chance, they could salvage the wrecks, winch the artefacts to the surface and auction them off for profit.
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Attempts at salvaging the wreck have continued right up through to the end of 20th century.
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salvage mission
One legal dispute from the original salvage mission involved about 500 coins that allegedly vanished.
Times, Sunday Times
Documents describing the salvage mission appear in a new collection of declassified material gathered during six years of archival research.
Times, Sunday Times
For flexibility, it was outfitted for many types of oceanographic and salvage missions.
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salvage the season
Now they will be heading north to salvage their season, with defeat utterly unthinkable.
Times, Sunday Times
Time will tell but for now they have a lot of work to do to salvage their season.
The Sun
And he thinks there's still time to salvage the season.
Globe and Mail
Villa believe all three have the qualities required to salvage their season and will spend the next few days sounding out various parties and planning strategy.
The Sun
But at least they salvaged the season.
Houston Chronicle
salvage wood
The table was custom-made with a bespoke top and salvaged wood trestles.
Times, Sunday Times
Don't think 'eco' means shabby, either: stilted cabins from salvaged wood overlook the rainforest and there are decks on which to relax.
Times, Sunday Times
Most are now taking matters into their own hands, building ever sturdier shelters from salvaged wood and corrugated iron.
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Salvaging wood from the school's ruined buildings, a machinist repairman who lived nearby built a two-story garage for his family's home.
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salvage yard
It was once a school gym before the planks ended up at a salvage yard.
Times, Sunday Times
It will be hard to get a new one - unless you commission a replacement from a blacksmith or find one in a salvage yard.
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No quernstone from any architectural salvage yard was left unturned.
Times, Sunday Times
So, what to snap up and what to leave at the salvage yard?
Times, Sunday Times
It's on the site of an old salvage yard.
Times, Sunday Times
salvaged material
These projects were continuously hampered by shortages of construction materials, but the engineers were able to complete them by improvising and making use of salvaged material.
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It was rebuilt in that same year as a one-story building, using as much salvaged material from the original building as was possible.
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Extensive track repairs included the use of salvaged materials from the lifted portion of line.
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Despite this, the indigenous population continues to live in the area, constructing makeshift homes and shops out of salvaged materials.
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In most cases, the rating systems offer credits/point for the use of wood in the following areas: certified wood; recycled /reused /salvaged materials; and local sourcing of materials.
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Translations:
Chinese: 抢救 沉船或被毁楼房中的财物, 抢救行动 沉船或被毁楼房中的财物
Japanese: 引き揚げる, 回収
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