- 1nA2
/ˈdentɪst/
A medical worker trained to check, clean, and treat people's teeth.
牙醫
複數 dentists
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…更多收起
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。原始詞典資料2 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。
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.
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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。