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nurse

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Related topics: Nurses, doctors, etc, Occupations

nurse1 /nɜːs $ nɜːrs/ S2 W3 noun [countableC]

1 MNsomeone whose job is to look after people who are ill or injured, usually in a hospital 〔通常指醫院裏的〕護士

The nurse is coming to give you an injection.

護士會來給你打針。

The school nurse sent Sara home.

學校的護士送薩拉回家。

a male nurse

男護士

a senior nurse

高級護士

a student nurse (=someone who is learning to be a nurse)

實習護士

a psychiatric nurse (=a nurse for people who are mentally ill)

精神病院護士

a community nurse

社區護士

→ district nurse , staff nurse →4 See picture of 見圖 OCCUPATION

2. old-fashionedBOLOOK AFTER somebody a woman employed to look after a young child 保姆 SYN nanny

→ nursery nurse , wet nurse

Examples from the Corpus

nurse• Their male nurses, strong men, would carry them up the stairs and settle each one on to a cot.• The average age of nurses is now over 45.• Economics of nurse training Investigator: K Hartley Nurses are the most expensive single resource in the hospital sector.• A practical nurse brought old red wine, a silver tray of smoked salmon, crumbled hard-boiled egg, capers and lemon.• Josephine is a registered nurse.• Registered nurses are doing what only Nurse Practitioners used to do.• Only a Sister in her sixties, and two staff nurses were on duty in reception.• I asked the nurse what the problem was.• She asks the nurse if her husband has left.• Matron and some of the nurses were standing by.

Related topics: Nurses, doctors, etc, Birth

nurse2 verb

1 sick people 病人

a) [transitiveT]LOOK AFTER somebody to look after someone who is ill or injured 護理；照顧，照料

He’s been nursing an elderly relative.

他一直在照顧一位年老的親戚。

After Ray’s operation, Mrs Stallard nursed him back to health.

雷接受手術後，斯托拉德夫人照料他恢複了健康。

b) [intransitiveI usually in progressive]MN to work as a nurse 當護士

She spent several years nursing in a military hospital.

她在一家軍隊醫院裏當了幾年護士。

2 rest 休息 [transitiveT]LOOK AFTER somebody to rest when you have an illness or injury so that it will get better 療養〔傷病〕

Shaw has been nursing an injury, and will not play on Sunday.

肖一直在養傷，星期天將不參加比賽。

n Grammar

Nurse is never passive in this meaning.

3 feed a baby 喂嬰兒

a) [intransitiveI, transitiveT]MBHBH old-fashioned if a woman nurses a baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts 哺乳，給〔嬰兒〕喂奶 SYN breast-feed

information on nutrition for nursing mothers

關於哺乳期母親所需營養的信息

b) [intransitiveI] if a baby nurses, it sucks milk from its mother’s breast 〔嬰兒〕吃(母親的)奶

4 your feelings 情感 [transitiveT]FEEL HAPPY/FRIGHTENED/BORED ETC to keep a feeling or idea in your mind for a long time, especially an angry feeling 懷有〔憤恨等〕

nurse a grudge/grievance/ambition etc

For years he had nursed a grievance against his former employer.

多年來他一直對前僱主心懷不滿。

n Grammar

Nurse is never passive in this meaning.

5 take care of STH 照料某事物 [transitiveT]LOOK AFTER somethingSUPPORT A PERSON, GROUP, OR PLAN to take special care of something, especially during a difficult situation 〔尤指在困難時期〕精心照料，打理

nurse something through/along etc

He bought the hotel in 1927 and managed to nurse it through the Depression.

他於1927年買下那家賓館並精心打理，順利度過了大蕭條時期。

6 drink 喝 [transitiveT] informal if you nurse a drink, especially an alcoholic one, you drink it very slowly 慢慢地喝〔尤指含酒精的飲料〕

Oliver sat at the bar, nursing a bottle of beer.

奧利弗坐在酒吧裏，慢慢地喝着一瓶啤酒。

7 hold 抱 [transitiveT] literaryHOLD to hold something carefully in your hands or arms close to your body 小心地捧[抱]着；愛惜地摟抱

a child nursing a kitten

懷抱着一只小貓的孩子

Examples from the Corpus

nurse• She never nurses a grievance or plans revenge.• Police believe the suspect nursed a grudge against women.• Penelope sat on the couch nursing a scotch and soda.• Shaw has been nursing a sore ankle.• Parents will become superfluous, the robots will nurse and play with children.• So Demeter nursed Demophoon, the son that Metaneira had borne to wise Celeus.• The monks tended his wounds and nursed him back to health.• Irina had wanted to nurse him, but the doctors had sent her away.• Tony nursed his wife through her long illness without ever complaining.• Martha nursed Ted herself.• The youngest bees clean out the cells and nurse the brood.• The others need to nurse the insult.• Somewhere the sturdy beggars nursed their wounds and cursed.

nurse a grudge/grievance/ambition etc• Since 1960, when they had been humiliated by the Summerdale police scandal, Chicago police had nursed a grudge.• Dawson had been nursing a grudge even more intense than that of the others.

Origin nurse1

(1200-1300) Old French nurice, from Latin nutricius; → NUTRITIOUS

nurse2

(1500-1600) nursh “to nourish” ((14-16 centuries)), from nourish; influenced by → NURSE1