heal

Compared meaning: to make someone healthy again (verb).

比较义项：使恢复健康，治愈（动词）。

• heal 本词

  Heal usually describes a wound, injury, or body part naturally recovering over time; it can be intransitive, so the injury itself may be the subject.

  heal 通常指伤口、骨折等身体部位随时间自然恢复，可用作不及物动词，伤口本身可作主语。

  The cut on her knee healed within a few days.

  她膝盖上的伤口几天内就愈合了。

• cure

  Cure means an illness or disease is completely eliminated, usually through medical treatment; it is transitive, taking the illness or patient as its object, and often appears in the phrase 'a cure for'.

  cure 表示疾病被彻底治愈，通常借助医学治疗手段；是及物动词，宾语通常是疾病或病人，也常出现在“a cure for”这一短语中。

  Doctors hope the new drug will cure the disease completely.

  医生们希望这种新药能彻底治愈这种疾病。

Heal and cure both mean to make someone healthy again. Heal describes a wound naturally recovering over time; it can be used without an object. Cure means an illness is completely removed through medical treatment; it takes an object, as in a cure for cancer.

两词都表示使恢复健康，但角度不同：heal 常指伤口、骨折等身体部位随时间自然恢复，可作不及物动词；cure 强调借助医药等手段彻底消除疾病，是及物动词，宾语通常是疾病或病人。