詞彙精選：heal的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

v.

（使）癒合，治癒，（使）恢復健康 [I,T]

例句：

Time heals most pains.

時間會消除很多痛苦。

例句：

The medicine and rest will soon heal your wound.

藥物治療和休息會使你的傷口很快癒合。

（使）結束，較容易忍受 [I,T]

調停，消除 [I,T]

例句：

Martin and Mary will not speak to one another, her mother is trying to heal the breach.

馬丁和瑪麗彼此不說話，瑪麗的母親正設法從中調停。

例句：

Nothing could heal the rupture between he and his father.

沒有什麼可以彌合他和父親之間的裂痕。

治癒（病人）；使（某人）又愉快起來 [I,T]

例句：

I hope her emotional wound will heal with the passing of time.

我希望她感情上的創傷能隨時間的流逝而治癒。

例句：

It will take a good while for your Broken arm to heal.

你折斷的手臂需要花很長的時間來治癒。

二、詞義辨析：

cure,treat,heal,remedy

這些動詞都有“治療、醫治”之意。cure主要指治癒疾病。treat普通用詞，指接受並診治病人。heal側重指治癒傷口、傷痛如灼傷等。remedy着重用藥物對病人進行治療。

三、參考例句：

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.

我們治癒地球，就是治癒我們自己。

The salve will heal slight burns.

這種藥膏能治療輕微燒傷。

The landscape would not heal so fast.

城市景觀並不會這麼快痊癒。

I want to heal his/her pain.

我想治癒他/她的傷痛。

Laser beams may cauterize and heal ulcers.

激光束可以燒灼和癒合潰瘍。

Time does not always heal old sores.

時間不一定能醫治心靈的創傷。

Tears really do heal a wounded spirit.

眼淚確實能治癒傷痕累累的心靈。

A physician's sacred duty is to heal the sick.

醫生神聖的職責就是治病救人。

Nothing could heal the rupture between he and his father.

沒有什麼可以彌合他和父親之間的裂痕。

The medicine and rest will soon heal your wound.

藥物治療和休息會使你的傷口很快癒合。