salvageable
adjective uk/ˈsæl.vɪdʒ.ə.bəl/ us/ˈsæl.vɪdʒ.ə.bəl/
(尤指从火灾水灾或沉船中)可以抢救的
If something is salvageable, it can be saved, especially from a fire or flood or from a ship that has sunk.
There is nothing that is salvageable in the building - we have lost everything. 这座建筑里没有任何可以抢救的东西,我们失去了一切。
可以挽救的,可以改善的
able to be improved from a bad situation and made good again
I believe her career is salvageable. 我相信她的职业前途是可以挽救的。
See: salvage
- More examples
- The original shop burned down and almost none of the merchandise was salvageable.
- In a disaster, you save the most salvageable things.
- The seven buildings at the center of the disaster are beyond repair, but the others may be salvageable.
- It was a dire situation. But he obviously felt very strongly that the situation was salvageable and did a great job.
- 80 to 90 percent of teens who break the law are "salvageable," he says, and should be incarcerated only as a very last resort.