take the watersold-fashioned to wash yourself in or drink special water that is thought to make you healthy 〔为保健〕用特殊的水洗澡;饮用特殊的水take the waters• Got some stomach trouble and I was advised to go to Vichy and Wiesbaden and take the waters.• Make a kind of grand tour on my own, take the waters and cure what ails me.• She's gone to a resort in Florida to take the waters.• In 1891 Woodhall Spa became a resort for people to take the waters.
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