核心畫面
You can picture a chemist as the person who knows what things are made of and what happens when you mix them. From that one person the word branches two ways: the one in a lab working out how substances behave, and — in British English — the one behind a counter measuring out medicine, plus the shop where that counter stands.
可以想成：懂得東西是由什麼組成、混在一起會發生什麼事的那個人。從這一個人分出兩條路：一條進了實驗室，研究物質怎麼變化…更多收起
可以想成：懂得東西是由什麼組成、混在一起會發生什麼事的那個人。從這一個人分出兩條路：一條進了實驗室，研究物質怎麼變化；另一條站到櫃檯後面，把藥配好交給你。英式英文裡再往前跨一步，連那個櫃檯所在的店面也一起叫 chemist——所以看到這個字時，先問一句：現在講的是「人」還是「地方」？原始詞典資料4 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。
chemistnoun/ˈkɛmɪst/
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A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
- It was Oxford now—the matriculation photograph, posed in the stony front quad at Corpus, the pelican on top of the sundial appearing to sit on the head of the lanky, begowned chemist at the centre of the back row.
- As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
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Synonym of pharmacist.
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Synonym of pharmacy, especially as a standalone shop or general store.
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obsoleteAn alchemist.
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。