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salvager

/sal-vij/US // ˈsæl vɪdʒ //UK // (ˈsælvɪdʒ) //

救援者,拯救者,救援人员,抢救者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
    • : the property so saved.
    • : compensation given to those who voluntarily save a ship or its cargo.
    • : the act of saving anything from fire, danger, etc.
    • : the property saved from danger.
    • : the value or proceeds upon sale of goods recovered from a fire.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sal·vaged, sal·vag·ing.

    • : to save from shipwreck, fire, etc.

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Examples

  • It can’t ever have been declared a total loss in an accident or be operating under a salvage title.

  • Fortescue apologized for the incident, which saw the company conduct land clearing on a cultural heritage site without the presence of elders from the Eastern Guruma People to observe and salvage artifacts.

  • Howell, who owns a pipeline salvage business, thought he could do the work for as little as $1,000.

  • Yet the sport, like everything else, is too much in salvage mode to know for sure what that looks like.

  • Sen. Mary Landrieu did everything she could Monday night to salvage the shards of her bid for a fourth term in the U.S. Senate.

  • None of this is to say that the wreck and salvage of the Costa Concordia should have received less attention.

  • It was a negligent accident that cost more than 30 lives, including a salvage diver who perished working on the wreck.

  • Two full hotels on Giglio port have been rented entirely for two years for the salvage crews and the command center.

  • Can a radical overhaul salvage this once gripping spectacle?

  • There were no odds and ends, even, of wreckage which I could salvage for one more week of the old life.

  • "These, madam," said I, handing her a small plush bag into which I had poured the "salvage" taken from my sticky palms.

  • Others were retaken by the English blockading squadrons, who received then one eighth for salvage.

  • In a week this salvage of débris was finished; the rock was swept clean, and the Durande was lightened.

  • The wreck and the salvage vessel assisting each other in opposite ways, saved half the labour of the operation.