| 单词 | cure |
| 释义 | cure I. 1. a. b. 2. a. obsolete b. < his cure was complete > also < clinical cure > especially during a prolonged period of observation < 5-year cure of cancer > : return to freedom from an infecting agent < biologic cure of typhoid > — compare arrest, quiescence, remission c. < water cure > < quinine is a cure for malaria > d. < take a cure for alcoholism > or to improve general health < an annual cure at a spa > e. < one of the fashionable cures > 3. < the attractively plausible idea that the cure for negative attitudes and misinformation is information — W.H.Whyte > 4. 5. maritime law Synonyms: see remedy II. transitive verb 1. a. < cure him of his illness > < curing his patients rapidly by new procedures > < a child cured of lisping > b. < any physician can cure a clean wound > < antibiotics cure many formerly intractable infections > 2. a. < every fact you learn cures ignorance or confusion — J.M.Barzun > < no amount of sweeping and clean mats could cure the bedbugs > b. < the loss cured him of his gambling > < a rebuff that cured him of his brash aggressiveness > 3. < cure meat by salting > < drying the hay to cure it > < curing tobacco by aging it > : perfect by chemical change (as rubber by vulcanizing, plastics by treating with heat or chemicals to make them infusible and insoluble, or green concrete by maintaining proper conditions of moisture and temperature) 4. 5. intransitive verb 1. of a product 2. a. < careful living cures more often than it kills > b. Synonyms: < mind and will are so powerful they can heal the sick — C.A.Dial > cure, however, more commonly applies to restoration of a healthy or normal condition of body or organism < cure a headache > < cure a cold > heal commonly applies to restoration to soundness of an affected part after a wound or lesion < heal an open sore > < heal a cut in the hand > Figuratively, one cures a bad condition of things, but heals a breach as in human relations < cure him of his faults — Douglas Stewart > < went far toward curing the cynicism of youth — Dixon Wecter > < half a century's estrangement between the farmers and the townsmen may yet be healed — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > < heal a split in his own Liberal Party — Time > remedy applies to the use of any means of correction or relief of a morbid or evil condition < remedy the common cold > < anxieties would be remedied — J.A.Pike > < remedy the breakdown of international prestige — Max Ascoli > < the theory that better religion, better houses, or larger prisons can remedy the badly functioning brain — Atlantic > |
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