- 1nB1
/fəˈzɪʃən/
a doctor, especially in formal American English.
醫師
複數 physicians
核心畫面
Picture the word on a hospital door or a name card: Dr. Chen, Physician. It points at the same person you would call a doctor, but in the register of forms, reports and American hospital signs — the trained medical professional, named formally.
可以想成醫院門上那塊牌子或名片上印的字：Dr. Chen, Physician。它指的就是你平常叫 doctor 的…更多收起
可以想成醫院門上那塊牌子或名片上印的字：Dr. Chen, Physician。它指的就是你平常叫 doctor 的那個人，只是換到表格、報告、美國醫院招牌那種正式的場合裡講。日常對話說 I need to see a doctor 就好；physician 出現的地方多半是書面或制度性的文字。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。
physiciannoun/fəˈzɪʃən/
- 1
A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.
- His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].
- In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.
- 2
A medical doctor trained in human medicine.
- The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice[…].
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。