| 单词 | rescue |
| 释义 | res·cue I. transitive verb 1. a. < rescue a prisoner of war from the enemy > < rescued a drowning child > b. 2. a. b. 3. intransitive verb Synonyms: < rescuing a soldier from the enemy > < rescuing the guards held as hostages > < the seamen rescued from the lost ship > < rescue his nation from defeat > deliver signifies setting free from confinement, suffering, tribulation, embarrassment, or vexation < delivered the prisoners from the Bastille > < deliver us from evil — Mt 6:13 (Revised Standard Version) > < the population of Russia had only just been delivered, nominally at least, from serfdom — Havelock Ellis > redeem applies to releasing from captivity, retribution, sequestration, or deterioration by some necessary expenditure < let me redeem my brothers both from death — Shakespeare > < he labored for eighty years, redeeming them to Christianity from their magical and bloodthirsty practices — Norman Douglas > < a plot of land redeemed from the heath, and after long and laborious years brought into cultivation — Thomas Hardy > ransom usually applies specifically to buying a captive out of his captivity < ransom a child held by kidnappers > < back in Quebec with a number of Iroquois captives whom he had ransomed — J.J.Wynne > reclaim indicates a bringing back or returning to a former sound, good, or valuable condition of something that has undergone error, degenerating, waste, neglect, or abandonment < the priest labored zealously to reclaim those of the redmen that had listened to Baptist teachings — Louise P. Kellogg > < I fear he is not to be reclaimed; there is scarcely a hope that anything in his character or fortunes is reparable now — Charles Dickens > < a large-scale program of reclaiming land and of bringing new land into cultivation — H.S.Truman > save is a general term that can be used in place of any of the preceding; it may imply a freeing from danger, evil, or trial and a maintaining or preserving for continued existence, security, use, or service < saved a tired swimmer from drowning > < firemen saving the rear wing of the house > II. 1. < three rescues to his credit > < come to their rescue > 2. a. b. (1) (2) |
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