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A short, everyday word that is really two different sharing a spelling. The main one is the animal doctor — and from the picture of that doctor going over a horse before a sale comes the verb: to look something over carefully before you accept it. The soldier sense is a separate word that happens to look the same.
可以想成一個很短的口語縮寫，其實底下藏著兩個不同的字。主要那個是「獸醫」——而獸醫在買賣前把一匹馬從頭到腳檢查一遍的…更多收起
可以想成一個很短的口語縮寫，其實底下藏著兩個不同的字。主要那個是「獸醫」——而獸醫在買賣前把一匹馬從頭到腳檢查一遍的畫面，就長成了動詞的 vet：在接受之前先仔細查一遍。至於「退伍軍人」那個 vet，是另一個字剛好縮寫成同樣四個字母，跟獸醫沒有關係。原始詞典資料5 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。
vetnoun詞源 1/vɛt/
- 1
A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon.
- Colin Cameron, a vet who examined the dead animal, said there was "no doubt the kitten would have suffered unnecessarily" before dying.
vetnoun詞源 2/vɛt/
- 1
A veteran (a former soldier or other member of armed forces).
- “A former soldier, sir. A vet. Theyʼre all vets, a little shellshocked.”
vetverb詞源 3/vɛt/
- 1
To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval.
- The FBI vets all nominees to the Federal bench.
- Sir Humphrey Appleby: Nevertheless we do not admit it (the existence of MI6). Not everyone round this table has been vetted (pun). / Jim Hacker: I thought that's something you do to cats (laugh track). / Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes indeed, but not ferrets, Minister (laugh track).
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。