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Amelioration is the noun for making a bad situation better, or for the improvement itself. You can speak of the amelioration of pain, of living conditions, of a conflict. It is formal, like the verb ameliorate, and it names a of harm more often than a complete fix. Language scholars also use it in a specialist way: when a word's meaning grows kinder over time (the opposite of a word turning nastier). That second use is for the classroom of words, not for hospitals or — but it is the same idea of getting better.
改善；情況好轉
組成From French-type amelioracion, and also from ameliorate + -ion (the act or result).
同家族的字
- amelioratethe verb this noun belongs to
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ameliorationnoun/əˌmiːliəˈɹeɪʃən/
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The act of making better.
- The tumult was over, and all things returned to their old place; and the abuse remained without remedy, and the wrong without redress. Ah! if the doctrine of amelioration be true, what a mighty debt does the future owe to the past!
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An improvement.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time.
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesAn ameliorative change of a concept or a repertoire of concepts.
- pre-amelioration
- post-amelioration
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。