| 词汇 | rescuer |
| 释义 | rescuer noun[ C ] uk /ˈres.kjuː.ər/ us /ˈres.kjuː.ɚ/ a person who helps someone out of a dangerous or unpleasant situation: 救援人员 Two of the rescuers died in a second earthquake. As dark fell, rescuers were still searching for missing climbers.夜幕降临时，救援人员仍在寻找失踪的登山者。 See rescue Rescuers have found a body at the site. The two women were not found by mountain rescuers until 4.40am on Sunday. Rescuers searched for other survivors of the fire. Preserving and saving aspic co-processing conserve deliverer documentalist documentarily lifeguard reclaim recycled reprieve rescue reusable rewild salvage sustain sustainedly unadopted unappropriated unassigned undesignated Examples of rescuerrescuer But when his parents turned around to thank his rescuer no man was to be seen. It registers that the rescuer's action was a serious one, in need of a special sort of justification. The rescuer is blameless and does not owe an apology. Were the rescuers motivated by altruism or by the promise of payment? Many other rescuers, although assisting strangers, were nevertheless drawn to help people they regarded as 'culturally similar' to themselves. Unknown to their would-be rescuers, however, they had perished. The rescuer then discovers a herb that, when mixed with the drug, will allow her to save two people. After all, running into a burning building to save someone else's child could be socially irresponsible if the rescuer has four dependent children at home. It seems right to say both that the saved person has been harmed and that the rescuer has harmed her, although under special circumstances.24 22. Further, emergency room workers shouldn't even have thought of this as a stranger to stranger relationship; they were, after all, not just professional helpers but professional rescuers. It does not matter much, when assessing whether the rescuer should compensate for the unavoidable injuries, if the rescuer acted from benevolence, whimsy, or a desire to impress. Following a destructive earthquake, even the ceremony of rescue is morally and politically charged, as rescuers fight not against 'nature' but against the twisted ruins of their own design failures. But in order to focus attention on the difference in the amount of money each would-be rescuer demands, it's important to control for these other possible variables. Thus, the method of pairwise comparison provides no basis for choosing the greater number, leaving the rescuer to break a tie between saving one person and saving five others. What is more, although a fence does not provide a barrier to a young child, it will provide an almost insurmountable barrier to would-be rescuers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of rescuer These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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