Confusing English Words – cure / treat / heal / recover

بسیاری از کلمات وجود دارند که معنی یکسانی دارند، اما در واقع تعاریف و کاربردهای مختلفی دارند. شما می خواهید درست صحبت کنید و از به کار بردن کلمات نادرست خودداری کنید، اما در مورد معنی دقیق و کاربرد هر کلمه کاملا مطمئن نیستید. بعضی از زبان آموزان حتی به دلیل تردیدهایشان از به کار بردن کلمات خودداری می کنند! هدف ما در این سری از پست ها روشن کردن رایج ترین کلمات گیج کننده در انگلیسی است.

cure / treat / heal / recover

:The verb treat is used for giving medical aid; making efforts to help a sick or injured person get better

.The doctor treated the girl with antibiotics

:Heal is typically used for injuries and wounds (not diseases), when the injury gets better naturally by the body’s own processes

.It was just a minor cut, it healed in a day or two .People wear casts to keep the broken bones in the right position while they heal

Cure is typically used for diseases – meaning when medicine completely eliminates the disease and restores the person to health. It can be both a noun and a verb

.Antibiotics can cure minor infections .The doctors said her cancer was cured after many weeks of chemotherapy .Scientists have not yet found a cure for AIDS

:The verb recover describes the process of a person resting and getting back to full health after a disease, injury, or surgery

.It took him a month to recover from the injuries he suffered in the car crash .I have a really bad cold and I’m staying home from work today to recover .She spent a week in the hospital recovering from her kidney transplant