喜樂美語

Under both meanings of patient you can picture the same quiet posture: someone who BEARS something — who takes what comes and endures it without fighting it. The Latin root patiens means 'enduring, suffering'. Hold that one image of a person quietly bearing what happens to them, and both the calm waiter and the sick person in a hospital bed fall out of it.

patient 的兩個意思底下，可以想成同一個安靜的姿態：一個「承受」著什麼的人——他接住眼前發生的事，不抗拒、靜靜地扛著。拉丁字根 patiens 就是「承受、忍受」。握住這個「安靜承受眼前之事」的人的畫面，那位耐住性子的等待者，與躺在病床上的病人，就都從這裡長出來。

From the word’s history

Both senses descend from Latin pati / patiens, 'to suffer, to endure, to bear'. The adjective keeps the 'endure calmly' side (bearing delay without complaint); the noun narrows to one who is bearing illness and treatment — the one being acted upon by the doctor.

兩個意思都來自拉丁文 pati / patiens，意思是「忍受、承受、承受」。形容詞保留了「安靜承受」那一面（承受等待而不抱怨）；名詞則縮到「承受病痛與治療的人」——那個被醫生處理、對待的人。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), s.v. 'patient' (Latin pati, patiens 'to suffer, endure')

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原始詞典資料7 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。

Patientname

  • 1

    A surname.

patientadj/ˈpeɪ̯ʃənt/

  • 1

    Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.

    • Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.
    • Asari Cultural VI: Due to our lifespan-sometimes reaching 1,000 years of age-we are patient in our decisions, and prefer long-term solutions over short-term gains.
  • 2

    Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.

    • patient endeavour
    • a patient wait
  • 3

    obsoletePhysically able to suffer or bear.

    • To this outward structure was joined that strength of constitution, patient of severest toil and hardship; insomuch that for the most part of his life, in the fiercest extremity of cold, he took no other advantage of a fire, than at the greatest distance that he could, to look upon it.

patientnoun/ˈpeɪ̯ʃənt/

  • 1

    A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.

    • Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so.
    • At the veterinary clinic, caring for the patients successfully and dealing with the patients’ owners successfully are both necessary skills.
  • 2

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsThe noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.

    • The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.
    • The number of a first or second person participant is generally marked for both agent and patient in all aspects.
  • 3

    One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.

    • Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient.
    • For it seems clear that the subject of change is the changed, i.e. the patient -- on one proviso. the proviso is that there be an agent or changer.

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