站在傷口另一邊的那一個
兩個意思共用同一個位置:傷在這邊,healer 在那一邊。差別只在站上去的是人還是事。
noun · B2
Someone who people believe can make sick people well again by using a natural or spiritual power, rather than by giving them medicine from a doctor.
療癒者;治病的人
Picture whatever is standing on the healing side: something is hurt, and something else is closing it up. The ending -er just names that second thing. Usually it is a person with a pair of hands. But the ending does not insist on a person, and English lets a thing stand in the same place - time, rest, music - as though it were quietly doing the same work.
From Middle English helere, the agent noun of heal: heal + -er, 'the one that heals'.
healer 由 heal(治好)加上 -er 組成,中古英文寫作 helere,就是「把人治好的那一個」。因為 -er 既可以指人也可以指東西,這個字後來能同時走人和物兩條路。
Wiktionary entry for 'healer' (packet field etymology_text): From Middle English helere, the agent noun of heal; analysed as heal + -er.
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站在傷口另一邊的那一個
兩個意思共用同一個位置:傷在這邊,healer 在那一邊。差別只在站上去的是人還是事。
noun · B2
Someone who people believe can make sick people well again by using a natural or spiritual power, rather than by giving them medicine from a doctor.
療癒者;治病的人