(1) rescue是“救出,解救,援救,使免于(灾祸等)”。
- The firemen rescued 3 women from the burning house.
消防队员从燃烧的房子里救出三名妇女。 - He must fight to change the world, to rescue civilization.
他必须去战斗来改变世界,拯救文明。
(2) ①save意为“挽救,拯救”,在有些情况下可与rescue换用,使用范围比rescue广,是普通用词。
- The young man saved/rescued the little girl from drowning at the cost of his own life.
这个年轻人牺牲了自己的生命救出了这个溺水的小女孩。 - He hesitated whether he should make one last attempt to save the man.
他犹豫着是否应该做最后一次努力来拯救这个人。
②save还可作“节省(时间、金钱等);省去(麻烦)”。
- He concentrated himself upon his work and upon how to save time.
他一门心思扑在工作和如何节省时间上。 - To save trouble, Philip announced that he would take his meals out.
为了省去麻烦,菲利普说他将在外面吃饭。 - I ought to have done so sooner, it would have saved me numerous misfortunes.
我该早就这么做,那样就会使我省去许多倒霉的事。
(3) deliver也可表示“解救,拯救;使摆脱”,多用于抽象意义的困境。
- May God deliver us from all evil.
愿上帝使我们摆脱一切邪恶。 - We must help to deliver them from misery and suffering.
我们必须帮助他们,把他们从苦难中解脱出来。 - Only education can deliver people from ignorance and superstition.
只有教育才能把人们从愚昧和迷信中解脱出来。
(4) salvage表示从损失、灾害等中“抢救,援救,打捞,保住(身体的某部分)”,可以作名词,也可作及物动词。
- They managed to salvage the cargo of the sinking ship.
他们设法从下沉的轮船中抢救出了货物。 - All that could be salvaged from the ashes was a small metal box containing instruments.
能从废墟中抢救出来的只有一个装有仪器的金属盒。
(拓展学习:小词详解 | salvage)