比喻的「良藥」
把『吃下去就會好』的畫面從身體挪到心情和處境：能讓難過的人好起來的東西，被說成最好的『藥』；該吞下的苦果，也被說成自己的『藥』。
the best medicine · noun · A2
Used in 'the best medicine' to mean the best way to make a sad person feel better.
良方
核心畫面
You can picture medicine as the thing you take in to get well: a of syrup or a pill that goes into a sick body to put it right. From that one concrete picture — a remedy taken to heal — the word reaches outward, first to the whole science of healing, then to anything that 'cures' a hurt, even a feeling.
可以把 medicine 想成你吞下去、好讓自己復原的那樣東西：一匙糖漿、一顆藥丸，進到生病的身體裡把它修好。核心畫…更多收起
可以把 medicine 想成你吞下去、好讓自己復原的那樣東西：一匙糖漿、一顆藥丸，進到生病的身體裡把它修好。核心畫面比較像『為了把病治好而服下的東西』——從這個很具體的畫面往外長，先擴到整門治病的學問，再延伸到任何能『療癒』某種傷的東西，連心裡的難受也算。From the picture
Also in this word
medicine (medication) · noun · A2
Something you take to make you better when you are sick, often a liquid you drink.
藥
medicine (the science) · noun · A2
The science and work of treating and studying illness and injury.
醫學
原始詞典資料13 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。
medicinenoun/ˈmɛd.ɪ.s(ɪ)n/
- 1
A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
- This medicine has fewer adverse effects than others in its drug class.
- Using a weekly pill organizer is a good way to help remind yourself to take your medicine each day, and it also tells you whether you already took today's pills (it's not unusual to forget doing a habitual task)!
- 2
Any treatment or cure.
- A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?
- Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils […]
- 3
The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
- She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.
- 4
The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
- The history of medicine can be discretized into eras with differing relationships between physicians and surgeons
- 5
The profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
- 6
historicalThe profession and practice of physicians, including surgeons.
- the evolving relationship of medicine to surgery in the nineteenth century
- 7
Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, or warfare; traditional medicine.
- 8
Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing.
- The North American Indian boy usually took as his medicine the first animal of which he dreamed during the long and solitary fast that he observed at puberty.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
- 9
obsoleteBlack magic, superstition.
- 10
obsoleteA philter or love potion.
- If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. It could not be else. I have drunk medicines.
- 11
obsoleteA physician.
- I have seen a medicine / That's able to breathe life into a stone
- 12
slangRecreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.
medicineverb/ˈmɛd.ɪ.s(ɪ)n/
- 1
obsoleterareTo treat with medicine.
- And we shall find, under the head of the medicining of the body, some things on the subject of medicine in general, which could be better said there than here, because of the wrath of professional dignitaries,- the eye of the 'basilisk,' was not perhaps quite so terrible in that quarter then, as it was in some others.
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。