- 1有警惕作用的、慘痛但受用的
A salutary experience is one that stings a little — or a lot — but teaches you something you needed to learn. Losing money you were careless with, or failing because you did not prepare, can be salutary: unpleasant, yet useful. This is the sense you will meet in newspapers and essays. It is a formal word; a friend might say a wake-up call instead. Older English also used it to mean good for your health, which is closer to the Latin (from salus, health), but that use has . It is not about saying hello — that is salute — and it is not a soft compliment: if something is salutary, it probably hurt your pride first.
組成From Middle French salutaire, from Latin salutaris (healthful), from salus (health).
同家族的字
- saluteoriginally a wish for health, from the same Latin salus
- salubriousfrom a closely related Latin word for healthy
- salutationa greeting; same salus family
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
salutaryadj/ˈsaljʊtəɹi/
- 1
Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial.
- salutary advice
- The effect was most salutary; and, amid starts and screams—for the poor girl was fairly frightened out of the small portion of sense that, at any time, belonged to her—they learned that Lord Marchmont had been found dead in his bed; and that Lady Marchmont was, with the shock, in a state of almost insanity!
- 2
Promoting good health and physical well-being; wholesome; curative.
- In the living state, the body is observed to […] reject what is noxious; to select what is salutary; […]
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。