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Something restorative makes you feel healthier or stronger — more like yourself again. A nap, a walk by the sea, a quiet weekend, or a simple meal can be restorative. The feeling is of being built back up, not of luxury.
Something restorative某件 restorative 的事 makes you feel healthier or stronger會讓你覺得更健康、更強壯 — more like yourself again.──更像原本的自己。A nap, a walk by the sea, a quiet weekend, or a simple meal小睡一下、在海邊散步、安靜的週末，或一頓簡單的飯 can be restorative.都可以是 restorative 的。The feeling is of being built back up,那種感覺是被重新補充起來， not of luxury.不是奢華的感覺。
You will meet it in careful writing and in talk about health or rest; it is a little more formal than “it did me good”.
You will meet it in careful writing and in talk about health or rest;你會在講究的寫作裡，以及談健康或休息的談話中遇到它； it is a little more formal than 'it did me good'.它比「it did me good」還要正式一點。
Though actually, the word can also name a thing that restores you (an old use for a tonic or a drink), but almost always meet the adjective. It belongs with restore, not with , and not with rest as in sleep — even when the thing that restores you is rest.
Though actually, the word can also name a thing that restores you不過其實，這個字也可以指能讓你恢復元氣的東西 (an old use for a tonic or a drink),（這是用來稱補藥或飲品的舊用法）， but learners almost always meet the adjective.但學習者幾乎都只會遇到形容詞用法。It belongs with restore, not with restive,它跟 restore 是一家的，不是跟 restive 一家， and not with rest as in sleep也不是跟表示睡覺的 rest 一家 — even when the thing that restores you is rest.──即使讓你恢復元氣的東西正好就是休息。
組成From Middle English restoratif, from Old French restoratif / restauratif and Medieval Latin restaurātīvus. Same as restore + -ative (“having the quality of restoring”).
同家族的字
- restorethe verb: to make well or whole again
- restorationthe act of bringing something back
- restorera person who restores something
原始詞典資料3 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。
restorativeadj/ɹɪˈstɒɹətɪv/
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Serving to restore.
- After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.
- Destroys life's enemy, / Hunger, with sweet restorative delight.
restorativenoun/ɹɪˈstɒɹətɪv/
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Something with restoring properties.
- Marianne’s joy was almost a degree beyond happiness, so great was the perturbation of her spirits and her impatience to be gone. Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive.
- For Louis XIV's advancing age, a drink consisting of sugar, distilled spirits, and orange water was recommended as a restorative of vigor.
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An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic.
- “Well, let's hope you're right, darling. In the meantime,” said Kipper, “if I don't get that whisky-and-soda soon, I shall disintegrate. Would you mind if I went in search of it, Mrs Travers?” “It's the very thing I was about to suggest myself. Dash along and drink your fill, my unhappy young stag at eve.” “I'm feeling rather like a restorative, too,” said Bobbie. “Me also,” I said, swept along on the tide of the popular movement. “Though I would advise,” I said, when we were outside, “making it port. More authority.”
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。