salve

• vt. 涂油膏；缓和
• n. 药膏；安慰
• n. (Salve)人名；(西、印)萨尔韦

来自古英语 sealf,油膏，药膏，来自 West-Germanic*salbo,油性物质，来自 PIE*selp,脂肪，脂 物。

1. semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation

2. anything that remedies or heals or soothes;

"he needed a salve for his conscience"

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.

I give myself treats and justify them to salve my conscience.

我常犒劳自己一番,然后找个说辞让自已良心稍安。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a soothing salve for sore, dry lips.

缓解嘴唇干裂疼痛的软膏

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Administer the salve to the sunburned area with a cotton swab.

请用棉药签把药膏敷在晒伤的地方.

辞典例句

This was widely hailed as a further salve for landlords.

此举进一步安抚了房主从而受到大面积的赞扬.

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She tried to salve her conscience by confessing everything in her diary.

她藉著在日记中供认一切试图减轻她的良心不安.

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The salve will heal slight burns.

这种药膏能治疗轻微烧伤.

英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语

It's too late to salve your conscience by apologizing.

现在想凭藉道歉获得良心上的安慰已经太晚了.

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Objective : To discuss the value of using large dosage naloxone hydrochloride to salve acute alcoholism patients.

目的: 探讨应用大剂量纳络酮抢救急性酒精中毒患者的临床意义.

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Clean affected areas, then apply thin layer of salve . Repeat, as needed , until the desiredare achieved.

清洁干净受伤的部位, 涂上一层薄薄的药膏, 按需重复, 直到恢复.

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She paid the repair bill as a salve to her conscience.

她付了维修费以减轻内疚感.

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Food for the spirit. And salve for my conscience.

这个提议是我精神的食粮, 却是我良知的药膏.

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Different sore must have different salve.

对症下药.

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We were unable to salve anything from the factory's fire.

我们没能从工厂大火中抢出任何东西.

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It was a sort of salve to her conscience.

那对她的良心是一种宽慰.

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After the feast she spent a week dieting to salve her conscience.

大吃了一顿之后,她花了一周时间节食以安慰自己.

《简明英汉词典》

MACERATE: To steep an herb in fat, such as done with salve and ointments.

浸渍(macerate): 把药草浸在油脂中, 就像制作油膏那样.

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He tried to salve his conscience with excuses, but he knew he was doing wrong.

他试图用各种借口来安慰自己的良心, 但是他明白自己做了错事.

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This is an inevitable result of the cheap credit that hasa salve for the financial crisis.

这是为了缓解金融危机而发放廉价信贷的必然结果.

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And making love is the purest salve for that loneliness.

对这些男人来说,做爱是解除这种孤单的最直接药物.

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He needed a salve for his conscience.

他需要良心发现.

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He went through pots of salve and had become a connoisseur of priests, healers, and potions.

他长期泡在药罐子里,于是也成为了一名内行的牧师 、 医师和药剂师.

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Better save a man from dying than salve him when dead.

拯救一个人使他不死,胜过在他死后说些安慰的话.

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This kind of salve is used on wounds.

这种药膏是用在伤口处.

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Mercy is a salve for every sore.

慈悲为百病之药.

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An ointment or oil ; a salve.

缓和她的晒斑的 油膏.

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Unlike the Rosebud salve , this stuff is actually worth the money.

跟玫瑰花蕾膏不一样, 这个更值的买!

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This salve will help to heal the wound.

这种药膏有助于治愈伤口.

辞典例句

Also their shop is very nice with Speed Scroll and healing salve.

同时他们的商店有速度卷轴和治疗膏药.

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Seek your salve where you get your sore.

心病还须心药医.

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