词汇精选：heal的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

v.

（使）愈合，治愈，（使）恢复健康 [I,T]

例句：

Time heals most pains.

时间会消除很多痛苦。

例句：

The medicine and rest will soon heal your wound.

药物治疗和休息会使你的伤口很快愈合。

（使）结束，较容易忍受 [I,T]

调停，消除 [I,T]

例句：

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

马丁和玛丽彼此不说话，玛丽的母亲正设法从中调停。

例句：

Nothing could heal the rupture between he and his father.

没有什么可以弥合他和父亲之间的裂痕。

治愈（病人）；使（某人）又愉快起来 [I,T]

例句：

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

我希望她感情上的创伤能随时间的流逝而治愈。

例句：

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

你折断的手臂需要花很长的时间来治愈。

二、词义辨析：

cure,treat,heal,remedy

这些动词都有“治疗、医治”之意。cure主要指治愈疾病。treat普通用词，指接受并诊治病人。heal侧重指治愈伤口、伤痛如灼伤等。remedy着重用药物对病人进行治疗。

三、参考例句：

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.

我们治愈地球，就是治愈我们自己。

The salve will heal slight burns.

这种药膏能治疗轻微烧伤。

The landscape would not heal so fast.

城市景观并不会这么快痊愈。

I want to heal his/her pain.

我想治愈他/她的伤痛。

Laser beams may cauterize and heal ulcers.

激光束可以烧灼和愈合溃疡。

Time does not always heal old sores.

时间不一定能医治心灵的创伤。

Tears really do heal a wounded spirit.

眼泪确实能治愈伤痕累累的心灵。

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

医生神圣的职责就是治病救人。

Nothing could heal the rupture between he and his father.

没有什么可以弥合他和父亲之间的裂痕。

The medicine and rest will soon heal your wound.

药物治疗和休息会使你的伤口很快愈合。