• n. 牙科醫生
• 牙醫診所

來自詞根dent, 牙齒。

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.

牙醫可能會決定拔掉那顆牙，以免反復發作。

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2. Think of the clammy hands you get when you visit the dentist!

想想你去看牙醫時那雙黏糊糊的手！

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3. The dentist commenced to dig, drill and finally fill the offending tooth.

牙醫開始在那顆有問題的牙齒上挖洞，鉆孔，直到最后把它補好。

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4. About 26 million people are not registered with a dentist.

大約2,600萬人沒有在牙醫處登記。

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5. It's worse than being at the dentist's.

這比呆在牙科診所里還要糟糕。

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