salvage是什么意思,salvage怎么用

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📰 外刊例句

Instead of burying TPP, they should try to salvage what they can from the wreckage. 他们非但不该埋葬跨太平洋伙伴关系协定,反而应当从残骸中尽力抢救它。

—— 《经济学人》

—— 《纽约时报》


📖 基本释义

[verb] rescue (a wrecked or disabled ship or its cargo) from loss at sea
[动词] 抢救(失事或丧失航行能力的船或船上的货物)使其免受海上损失


💡 深入解读

Salvage 一词与 savage (野蛮的、凶残的、猛烈抨击的)十分形似,源自古法语salver(拯救),17世纪40年代起开始在英语里作名词表示“海上救助费”。从这个概念进一步拓展即表示对船只、货物等的“海上救助、海上打捞”以及在火灾、水灾、船舶失事等时进行的“财产抢救”,比如:我认为我们不应该贸然对失事油轮的打捞作出决定。

I don't think we should make precipitate decisions on the salvage of the wrecked tanker.抢救行动继续进行。但那梯子看来摇摇晃晃的。

The salvage operation went on. But that ladder looked very precarious.此外,也可以用 salvage 来表示“抢救出的财物、船舶、船员等”,比如:他们带着抢救出来的物品爬上岩石,并在荒野中度过了40天。

They climbed up on the rock with their salvage and abided in the wilderness for forty days.等到了1889年, salvage 开始从名词衍生出动词含义,即表示“营救、打捞”失事船舶等,或“营救、抢救”失事船舶、损毁大楼等中的财物,比如:我们只从火灾中抢救出一箱微型人像画框。

We only managed to salvage a box of portrait miniature frames from the fire.该队的首要任务是决定可以抢救哪些器械。

The team's first task was to decide what apparatus could be salvaged.在这个动词概念下,还可以用 salvage 引申表示“挽救、挽回”,多指设法从困境中解救出来或阻止某个糟糕局面陷入彻底的失败,比如:我怎样才能挽回我受损的公众形象呢?

What can I do to salvage my tarnished public image?尽管他们的整个婚姻都是在做戏,他们仍然希望从他们破碎的婚姻中挽回点什么。

Even though their whole marriage had been a charade , they still hoped to salvage something from the wreck of their marriage.

另外, salvage 还有一个名词含义表示“废物的收集或利用”,则是源自第一次世界大战的英国,那时人们通过回收利用废旧的或受损的物资来支持前线战争。这个含义也可以用作动词表示“利用(废物、损坏的货物等)”,比如:这栋耸立在山顶附近一尘不染的房子是用回收的废旧材料建成的。

The house in pristine condition standing eminent near the top of the hill was built using salvaged materials.


📚 名著用例

She studied her own work again, looking for some way to salvage it, then sighed and put down the needle. 她又瞧了瞧自己的活儿,想找出个补救的法子,最后还是叹了口气,把针线搁到一边去了。

— 出自《美国作家乔治·R·R·马丁所》

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