a smooth substance that you rub on your skin to make a wound or painful place get better or stop hurting 药膏；软膏；油膏 antiseptic ointment 抗菌软膏 He put some ointment on the cut. 他在伤口上涂了些药膏。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary… of ointment- tube
- apply
- put on
- rub on
- …
Word OriginMiddle English: alteration of Old French oignement, from a popular Latin form of Latin unguentum, from unguere ‘anoint’; influenced by obsolete oint ‘anoint’ (from Old French, past participle of oindre ‘anoint’).
Idioms
a/the fly in the ointment
a person or thing that makes a situation or an occasion less pleasant, successful, etc. 扫兴的人；煞风景的事物