Panacea
What you think it means: A cure。你以為單詞的含義是：治愈。What it really means: A cure for a lot of things。單詞的真正含義是：萬(wàn)靈藥。
This one is easy to confuse because the explanation is virtually the same even if the definitions are vastly different. A panacea is something that cures a lot of things all at once. For instance, penicillin is a panacea. It cures a bunch of diseases. The flu vaccine is not a panacea because it only protects against the flu.這個(gè)單詞很容易混淆，因?yàn)榧幢愣x迥異，解釋起來(lái)實(shí)質(zhì)還是一樣的。Panacea(萬(wàn)靈藥)能立刻治愈各種疾病。比如說(shuō)，盤(pán)尼西林就是panacea(萬(wàn)靈藥)，它能治療很多疾病;而流感疫苗就不是panacea(萬(wàn)靈藥)，因?yàn)樗活A(yù)防流感。
