balm
balm 英 [bɑ:m] 美 [bɑm]
n. 香油；镇痛软膏；香峰草，香树膏
名词复数:balms
- If your lips are cracked and dry, lip balm will make them feel better. A balm is a soothing substance with a consistency somewhere between solid and liquid.
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- n. 香油；镇痛软膏；香峰草，香树膏
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1. Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?
在基列岂没有乳香呢。 在那里岂没有医生呢。
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2. Politicians and pundits alike took it as their job to apply balm.
政客和权威们同样地把它作为自己工作而为其贴金。
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3. Still came the battery of flowers, almost invariably hitting the mark, and covering the mother's breast with hurts for which she could find no balm in this world, nor knew how to seek it in another.
此时，花朵仍接二连三地抛来，几乎每一下都未中那标记，使母亲曲胸口布满伤痛，不但在这个世界上她找不到止痛药膏，就是在另一个世界上，她也不知道如何去找这种灵丹妙药。
- balm (n.) c. 1200, basme, "oily, resinous aromatic substance exuding naturally from shrubs of the genus Commiphora," from Old French basme, baume, balme "balsam, balm" (12c., Modern French baume), from Latin balsamum, from Greek balsamon "balsam," from Hebrew (Semitic) basam "spice," which is related to Aramaic busma, Arabic basham "balsam, spice, perfume." The spelling was refashioned 15c.-16c. on the Latin model. Compare balsam.
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