patient

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/ˈpɛjʃənt/    /ˈpæɪ̯ʃənt/|[ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯ʃənt] ~ [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯ʃn̩t]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
    — Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so.
  2. The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
    — The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.
  3. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
    — Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient.
形容词 adj.
  1. Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
    — Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.
  2. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
    — patient endeavour
  3. Physically able to suffer or bear. obsolete
    — To this outward structure was joined that strength of constitution, patient of severest toil and hardship; insomuch that for the most part of his life, in the fiercest extremity of cold, he took no other advantage of a fire, than at the greatest distance that he could, to look upon it.

词形变化

more patient comparative most patient superlative patients plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate, hurt”).
词源 2
From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate, hurt”).
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