喜樂美語
  1. 1nA2/ˈdentɪst/牙醫

    A medical worker trained to check, clean, and treat people's teeth.

    示範例句 · Example

    I'm going to the dentist this afternoon.

    逐字我今天下午要去牙醫那裡。

    「dentist」是專門照顧牙齒的醫生，台灣就說牙醫。英文常說 go to the dentist 或 the dentist's，意思是去看牙／去診所；the dentist's 特別指向診所那個地方。跟一般 doctor 比，dentist 只管牙齒和口腔。

    常見搭配

    • go to the dentist

      去看牙醫

      to visit a dentist for a checkup or treatment

      Leo is going to the dentist tomorrow morning.

    • visit the dentist

      去看牙醫；定期看牙醫

      to see a dentist, often for regular care

      Kids should visit the dentist twice a year.

    • the dentist's

      牙醫診所

      the place where a dentist works

      Mum is waiting for me at the dentist's.

    • a dentist appointment

      牙醫預約；看牙時間

      a planned visit to see a dentist

      Sam has a dentist appointment at three.

    • see the dentist

      去看牙醫

      to go and be checked or treated by a dentist

      If your tooth feels strange, see the dentist.

    • my dentist

      我的牙醫（常去的那位）

      the dentist you usually visit

      My dentist showed me a better way to brush.

    意思相近

    dental practitioner

    用法接近

    doctororthodontistoral surgeondental hygienist

core核心畫面

Picture the chair that tips back, the light overhead, and the person who looks after your teeth — both fixing what has gone wrong and checking before it does. In English the word also stands in for the place: 'go to the dentist' means the clinic, not the person's home.

可以想成：會往後倒的診療椅、頭頂那盞燈，還有照顧你牙齒的那個人——既處理已經出狀況的，也在還沒出事前檢查。英文有個好用的習慣：這個字也可以代表那個地方，go to the dentist 指的是去牙醫診所，不是去他家。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

複數 dentists

意思相近

dental practitioner

用法接近

doctororthodontistoral surgeondental hygienist

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

dentistnoun/ˈdɛntɪst/

  • 1

    A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.

    • It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.
    • Oh, you couldn't be married to a dentist. Don't be silly.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • Dengist

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。