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Question Hello BBC. What's the difference between "recovery" and "restoration"? Can I replace recovery and restoration with each other? Many thanks for your answer. Chen Wenyu Jean: Recovery 恢复，还有 restoration 修复。这两个都是名词。不过它俩的意思有很大的不同吗？ Catherine: Sometimes they have very similar meanings, but sometimes they are quite different. Jean: OK. 什么时候这两个词的意思是很相近的呢？ Catherine: Well, looking at the verb forms, both recover and restore can mean ‘to put something back to the way it was before’ especially when something was good, and then it went bad. Both recover and restore can mean ‘make it good again’. Jean: 就是说，recover 和 restore 都有“把某物修复好”的意思。 Catherine: Here’s an example. Two people are talking about someone’s health. Example Person 1: Has your mum recovered from her illness? Person 2: Well, she’s feeling a lot better, but the doctor says it will be another month before her health is fully restored. Jean: 从这样的例句来看，recover 和 restore 的意思比较相似，都是帮助某事某物或某人“修复”和“痊愈”的意思。那么在什么样的时候这两个词的意思是比较不同呢？ Catherine: Well, there are several ways the two words are used differently. For example, when you take an old building, ornament or piece of furniture, and you clean and repair it so that it looks exactly like it did when it was new – that’s restoration. | 
