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A saviour is someone who pulls you out of a difficult or dangerous place — the person who saves the day. Friends use it lightly: you brought the charger I forgot; you’re my saviour. In church language, Saviour (often with a capital S) means Jesus, the one who saves people in the religious sense. The spelling saviour is British; American English savior, without the u. Taiwan students will meet both, and they are the same word. It is about rescue, not about putting money in a bank — that person is a . The everyday hook in Chinese is 救星; the church word is heavier.
救星;宗教上指救世主(美式拼法是 savior)
savior 是 saviour 的美式拼法,意思一樣。多益(TOEIC)用美式拼法。
savior · saviour
組成Built on save, with an old French-style ending -iour (a person who does the action). American savior is the same word with a different spelling of the ending.
原始詞典資料5 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。
Saviorname
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ChristianityJesus Christ
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A male given name from English.
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rareA female given name from English.
saviornoun/ˈseɪvjɚ/
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A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.
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medicinesciencesA child who is conceived in order to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.)
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。