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A docent is a person who walks visitors through a museum, a church, or an old house and explains what they are looking at. In American English this is the usual word; the person may be a volunteer, not a paid professor. In British English people more often say guide. It is a formal, slightly specialist word. You put it on a badge, not in a text to a friend. Though actually, in some Central European universities docent is also a teaching rank, a kind of lecturer — same Latin root “to teach,” different job. For this entry, the museum-and-church sense is the one that matters.
導覽員(博物館、教堂等;台灣也說解說員。歐陸有些大學的 docent 則是教職,不是這個意思)
組成From Latin docēns, the “-ing” form of doceō, “to teach.” The European university rank is a shortened form of German Privatdozent.
原始詞典資料3 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。
docentadj/ˈdəʊ.sənt/
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Instructive; that teaches.
docentnoun/ˈdəʊ.sənt/
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A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.)
- Zermelo had been a docent at Göttingen when Kit was there and, like Russell, had been preoccupied with the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.
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A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.
- The docent greeted the visitors and welcomed them to the Smithsonian.
- She was listening distractedly as an elderly docent intoned to a circle of listless children.
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。