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A cure-all is something people believe will fix any illness, or any problem at all. Careful speakers often use it with a small shake of the head: they mean “people think it will, but nothing works on everything.” There is no real medicine that every sickness, so the word is half a name and half a warning. Newspapers also hang it on money, , or a new law — anything sold as the answer to all troubles. It is ordinary English, a little , not a doctor’s technical term.
萬靈丹
組成From cure + -all (a thing supposed to do all the curing).
同家族的字
- curethe first half is cure, to heal
原始詞典資料1 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。
cure-allnoun/ˈkjʊəɹɔːl/
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Synonym of panacea: a medicine or practice that cures all human ailments.
- Step right up! Step right up! Our panacean patent medicine miracle cure-all will cure what ails ya! Cash only! No refunds.
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。