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/ˈæmbjələns/
a special vehicle that takes people who are ill or hurt to hospital, with a bed inside and workers who look after them on the way.
救護車
複數 ambulances
核心畫面
You can picture a small hospital room on wheels: a bed fixed to the floor, equipment on the walls, trained workers beside the person, and the whole thing racing through traffic with its lights on. The point of the picture is that care starts the moment the doors close — it is not just a car that carries a sick person, it is a place where they are already being looked after on the way.
可以想成一間裝了輪子的小病房：床固定在地板上，器材掛在牆邊，受過訓練的人跪在傷病者旁邊，整台車閃著燈在車陣裡穿過去。…更多收起
可以想成一間裝了輪子的小病房：床固定在地板上，器材掛在牆邊，受過訓練的人跪在傷病者旁邊，整台車閃著燈在車陣裡穿過去。這個畫面的重點在於——門一關上，照顧就已經開始了。它不只是「載病人的車」，而是一個在路上就已經在救人的空間。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
ambulancenoun/ˈæmbjᵿl(ə)n(t)s/
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An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
- The NHS is bracing itself for its worst ever winter crisis descending in the next fortnight because of a worsening “flu-nami” that has left hospitals, GP surgeries and ambulances services under intense strain.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsA mobile field hospital.
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A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary.
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obsoleteSynonym of stretcher, a litter used for medical transport.
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obsoleteSynonym of covered wagon.
ambulanceverb/ˈæmbjᵿl(ə)n(t)s/
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To transport by ambulance.
- Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。