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.
雙語例句
1. Camomile has long been used as a remedy for teething babies.
春黃菊長期以來一直用作減輕嬰兒出牙時的不適的藥物。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Their remedy lay within the range of existent technology.
他們的治療方法利用現有技術可以實現。
來自柯林斯例句
3. I'll try a herbal remedy to calm him down.
我來用草藥試試，看能不能讓他鎮靜下來。
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4. The remedy lies in the hands of the government.
解決良策掌握在政府手中。
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5. Caution: large doses of this remedy are emetic.