核心畫面
One way to hold 'nurse': someone bending close over a person who is weak — sick, hurt, or very small — and tending them until they are stronger. From that one picture of careful, protective tending the whole word grows: the hospital nurse and the old children's nurse, the act of looking after the ill, feeding a baby at the breast, and then softer stretches of the same care — keeping a feeling warm inside you, helping a young thing grow, even cradling a glass or holding something gently in your arms.
可以想成： nurse 的核心畫面是一個人俯身湊近另一個比較脆弱的人——生病的、受傷的、或很小的——耐心地照看著，直…更多收起
可以想成： nurse 的核心畫面是一個人俯身湊近另一個比較脆弱的人——生病的、受傷的、或很小的——耐心地照看著，直到對方好起來、強起來。從這個「細心又護著的照看」往外長：醫院裡的護士、舊時看孩子的保姆、照顧病人、把嬰兒抱在胸前餵奶；再延伸到比較柔軟的同一種照看——把一份心情捧在心裡養著、扶持一個幼小的東西長大，甚至慢慢捧著一杯酒、輕輕把東西抱在懷裡。原始詞典資料20 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。
Nursename
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A surname.
nursenoun詞源 1/nɜːs/
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informalA person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
- My aunt was my nurse while I recuperated at home from surgery.
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A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
- The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward.
- Francis Urquhart: Right. Mackenzie. Health. No chance of getting him into a demo at a hospital, I suppose? Tim Stamper: Doesn't go to hospitals any more. Kept getting beaten up by the nurses... I think he has trouble getting insured now.
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governmenthealthcareA person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
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archaicA person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s children.
- They hired a nurse to care for their young boy.
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One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
- Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".
- the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise
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agriculturebusinesshorticultureA shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
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nauticaltransportA lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
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A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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archaicA wet nurse.
nurseverb詞源 1/nɜːs/
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To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
- She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
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To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
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To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
- She nursed him back to health.
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To tend gently and with extra care.
- She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
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To manage or oversee (something) with care and economy.
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informalTo drink (a beverage) slowly, so as to make it last.
- Rob was nursing a small beer.
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To cultivate or persistently entertain (an attitude, usually negative) in one's mind; to brood or obsess over.
- to nurse a grudge
- to nurse a grievance
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To hold closely to one's chest.
- Would you like to nurse the puppy?
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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ball-gamesbilliardsgamesTo strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
- It is to our interest to let Lee and Johnston come together, just as a billiard-player would nurse the balls when he has them in a nice place
nursenoun詞源 2/nɜːs/
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A nurse shark or dogfish.
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。