喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture someone stuck where they cannot get out — in the water, in a burning building, up a cliff — and another person reaching in and pulling them clear. Two parts matter: the trouble is real and they cannot escape it alone, and help arrives from outside.

可以想成有人卡在自己出不來的地方——水裡、火場、崖壁上——另一個人伸手把他拉出來。這個畫面有兩個重點：危險是真的、當…更多收起可以想成有人卡在自己出不來的地方——水裡、火場、崖壁上——另一個人伸手把他拉出來。這個畫面有兩個重點：危險是真的、當事人靠自己脫不了身，還有幫忙是從外面來的。

From the picture

及時出手相救（come to the rescue）

從整場行動縮到「趕來幫忙」這一刻，而且幾乎都住在固定說法 come to someone's rescue 裡：畫面還是有人從外面趕到，只是被救的處境可以越來越輕。

come to someone's rescue · noun · B1

Help that saves someone who is in a dangerous situation, especially in the phrase 'come to someone's rescue'.

出手相救

Also in this word

save from danger · verb · B1

To save a person or animal from danger, harm, or a situation they cannot get out of by themselves.

拯救／救出

act of rescuing · noun · B1

The act of saving a person or animal from danger or harm.

救援／搶救

原始詞典資料16 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。

Rescuename

  • 1

    A city in California.

rescueverb/ˈɹɛs.kjuː/

  • 1

    To save from any violence, danger or evil.

    • The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.
    • Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition was lost with two ships and 129 men, inspiring dozens of subsequent expeditions to find and rescue him, none of them successful.
  • 2

    To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.

    • to rescue a prisoner from the enemy
  • 3

    To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.

  • 4

    To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.

    • Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.
  • 5

    To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.

    • Jews rescued some normalcy from increasingly difficult times by assuaging their constant Angst in the family and community and making do with less.
    • Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.
  • 6

    biologygeneticsmedicineTo restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation.

    • Mecp2^(R255X/+) [mice] developed an overweight body weight phenotype by 10 weeks age and increased liver and heart weight by 8 months age. Abnormal body, liver and heart weight in Mecp2^(R255X/+) was rescued by MECP2ᵀᵍ¹ allele.
  • 7

    To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.

    • I rescued a set of antique dining chairs.
    • She had rescued a sofa once, had managed to locate the dealer who had bought it from under her nose while she perused a junk shop, and offered to buy it from him.
  • 8

    To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.

    • The cook rescued the sauce after it began to curdle.
    • To rescue whipped cream that has been overwhipped and appears grainy, add a little more liquid cream and whip it briefly or until very smooth and soft.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To adopt (an animal).

    • We rescued a dog, Dylan, which would begin my lifelong love of animals, especially dogs.

rescuenoun/ˈɹɛs.kjuː/

  • 1

    An act or episode of rescuing, saving.

    • Guests marveled that they kept making more rescues.
  • 2

    A liberation, freeing.

  • 3

    lawThe act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.

  • 4

    The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.

    • The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders
  • 5

    A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.

  • 6

    A rescuee.

    • The dog was a rescue with some behavior issues.

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。