dentist

n. 牙科医生

牙医诊所

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dentist 牙科医生

来自词根dent, 牙齿。

dentist: dentist: [18] Dentist was borrowed from French dentiste, and at first was ridiculed as a highfalutin foreign term: ‘Dentist figures it now in our newspapers, and may do well enough for a French puffer; but we fancy Rutter is content with being called a tooth-drawer’, Edinburgh Chronicle 15 September 1759. It was a derivative of French dent ‘tooth’, which goes back via Latin dēns to an Indo-European base *dont-, *dent-, source also of English tooth. Other English descendants of Latin dēns include dental [16] and denture [19].
=> indent, tooth
dentist (n.): 1759, from French dentiste, from dent "tooth," from Latin dens (see tooth) + -ist.
Dentist figures it now in our newspapers, and may do well enough for a French puffer, but we fancy Rutter is content with being called a tooth-drawer ["Edinburgh Chronicle," Sept. 15, 1759].
Tooth-drawer is attested from late 14c.

1. A dentist may decide to extract the tooth to prevent recurrent trouble.: 牙医可能会决定拔掉那颗牙，以免反复发作。

2. Think of the clammy hands you get when you visit the dentist!: 想想你去看牙医时那双黏糊糊的手！

3. The dentist commenced to dig, drill and finally fill the offending tooth.: 牙医开始在那颗有问题的牙齿上挖洞，钻孔，直到最后把它补好。

4. About 26 million people are not registered with a dentist.: 大约2,600万人没有在牙医处登记。