salve

英 [s?lv] 美[s?lv]

GRE暢通詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?salves;第三人稱單數(shù):?salves;過去式:?salved;過去分詞:?salved;現(xiàn)在分詞:?salving;

salve 油膏，藥膏，軟膏

來自古英語 sealf,油膏，藥膏，來自 West-Germanic*salbo,油性物質(zhì)，來自 PIE*selp,脂肪，脂物。

salve: salve: [OE] The central semantic element of modern English salve is ‘healing’, but its underlying etymological meaning is ‘oily substance’. It goes back to a prehistoric West Germanic *salbō, which had relatives in Greek élpos ‘oil’ and Sanskrit srpras ‘greasy’. The Germanic from has evolved into German salbe and Dutch zalf as well as English salve.
salve (n.): Old English sealf "healing ointment," from West Germanic *salbo- "oily substance" (cognates: Old Saxon salba, Middle Dutch salve, Dutch zalf, Old High German salba, German salbe "ointment"), from PIE *solpa-, from root *selp- "fat, butter" (cognates: Greek elpos "fat, oil," Sanskrit sarpis "melted butter"). The figurative sense of "something to soothe wounded pride, etc." is from 1736.
salve (v.1): Old English sealfian "anoint (a wound) with salve," from Proto-Germanic *salbojanan (cognates: Dutch zalven, German salben, Gothic salbon "to anoint"), from the root of salve (n.). Figurative use from c. 1200. Related: Salved; salving.
salve (v.2): "to save from loss at sea," 1706, back-formation from salvage (n.) or salvable. Related: Salved; salving.

1. After the feast she spent a week dieting to salve her conscience.: 大吃了一頓之后,她花了一周時間節(jié)食以安慰自己.

2. I give myself treats and justify them to salve my conscience.: 我常犒勞自己一番，然后找個說辭讓自已良心稍安。

4. Administer the salve to the sunburned area with a cotton swab.: 請用棉藥簽把藥膏敷在曬傷的地方.