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Though it sits next to amnesia, an amnesiac is not the illness. It is a person who has amnesia — someone who cannot remember in the usual way. You can also use it as a describing word: an amnesiac patient. The condition is amnesia; the person is an amnesiac. Writers and films like the word. It is medical and a little literary, not an everyday word at the shops.
失憶者、失憶症患者(不是病名本身)
組成amnesia + -ac (a person who has that condition).
同家族的字
- amnesiaamnesiac is built from amnesia; the -ac marks the person, not the illness
原始詞典資料1 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。
amnesiacnoun
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A person who suffers from amnesia.
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。