ambulance

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
    — The NHS is bracing itself for its worst ever winter crisis descending in the next fortnight because of a worsening “flu-nami” that has left hospitals, GP surgeries and ambulances services under intense strain.
  2. A mobile field hospital.
  3. A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary. UK
  4. Synonym of stretcher, a litter used for medical transport. UK,obsolete
  5. Synonym of covered wagon. US,obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To transport by ambulance. transitive
    — Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found.

词形变化

ambulances plural ambulances present,singular,third-person ambulancing participle,present ambulanced participle,past ambulanced past

词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
ambulant ambulatory

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).
词源 2
Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).
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