remedy是什么意思

vt. 补救；治疗；纠正

n. 补救；治疗；赔偿

中文词源

remedy 补救，纠正，改正

re-,表强调，-med,救治，词源同 medical,medicine.

remedy: remedy: [13] Remedy is closely related to medicine. It comes via Anglo-Norman remedie from Latin remedium ‘medicine’ a noun formed from the same stem, med-, as produced medērī ‘heal’ (source of English medical, medicine, etc). The extension in meaning from ‘medicine’ to ‘something that corrects a wrong’ took place in Latin.
=> medicine
remedy (n.): c. 1200, "cure for a disease or disorder; means of counteracting an evil," from Anglo-French remedie, Old French remede "remedy, cure" (12c., Modern French remède) and directly from Latin remedium "a cure, remedy, medicine, antidote, that which restores health," from re-, intensive prefix (or perhaps literally, "again;" see re-), + mederi "to heal" (see medical (adj.)). Figurative use from c. 1300.
remedy (v.): c. 1400, from Old French remedier or directly from Latin remediare, from remedium (see remedy (n.)). Related: Remedied; remedying.

1. Camomile has long been used as a remedy for teething babies.: 春黄菊长期以来一直用作减轻婴儿出牙时的不适的药物。

2. Their remedy lay within the range of existent technology.: 他们的治疗方法利用现有技术可以实现。