11-15每日一词 panacea

Panacea

要点：1、可数名词，通常单数

          2、panacea 后面常接的表示“问题”的名词，而且常用复数形式，比如 problems/ills；

          3、panacea 前面一般会和 no/not/never 这样表示否定的词连用。

a woman who seems to believe that chicken soup is a panacea for nearly everything

常用句型

1 、There is no panacea for X problems”的句式来表达“x问题没有完美的解决方案”：

There is no panacea for America's immigrant problems.

There is no panacea for Japan's population problems.

There is no panacea for China's environment problems.

2、X（某个解决方案）, though not a universal panacea for the problems of Y, would be a reform/change/step in the right direction.

当我们想表示“某个解决方案虽然不够完美，但是也能奏效”时，就可以直接套用上面这个句型。

Encouraging residents to use more public transportation, though not a universal panacea for the problems of traffic jam, would be a change/step in the right direction.

翻译

Many CEO wish they could  find the panacea for all the company’s problems .

造句

Most women wish they could find the panacea for keeping young forever.