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医生yī shēng
doctor
Definitions
| Chinese > English | |
| 医生 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 醫生 | |
| 醫生 | yīshēng |
| 1. n. doctor; physician and surgeon; medical practitioner | |
| 皮膚病 醫生 - dermatologist | |
| 醫生 說 手術 會 有 風險。 - The doctor said the operation carries risks. | |
| 醫生 在 給 病人 看病。 - The doctor is seeing a patient. | |
| 他 遵照 醫生 的 囑咐。 - He followed the advice of the doctor. | |
| English > Chinese | |
| doctor | |
| 1. 名词. 医生，大夫 | |
| 2. 名词. 普通医师，全科大夫 | |
| 3. 名词. 兽医 | |
| 4. 名词. 诊所 | |
| 5. 名词. 博士 | |
| 6. 动词. (及物動詞) 当医生，医治，治疗 | |
| Her children doctored her back to health. 她的孩子把她给治好了。 | |
| 7. 动词. (及物動詞) 让…成为医生 | |
| 8. 动词. (及物動詞) 改变有生命物体的生长速度或行为 | |
| They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick. 在他们修剪苹果树之后，现在树都变矮了，更容易摘。 | |
| We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido. 用生理手段降低宠物的性欲是合法的。 | |
| 9. 动词. (及物動詞) 篡改，伪造 | |
| Components | |
| 医 | yì |
| 1. Simplified form of 醫 | |
| 醫 | yī |
| 1. medicinal; medicine | |
| 2. doctor | |
| 3. to cure; to treat | |
| 冇得 醫 - untreatable | |
| 4. (Sichuan) to punish | |
| 生 | shēng, shēn |
| 1. to live; to subsist; to exist | |
| 2. to grow; to develop; to bud | |
| 3. (causative) to bear; to give birth; to bring up; to rear | |
| 他 妻子 生 了 一 對 雙胞胎 女孩。 (Tā qīzǐ shēng le yī duì shuāngbāotāi nǚhái.) - His wife gave birth to twin girls. | |
| 4. to be born; to come into existence | |
| 他 生 在 中國。 (Tā shēng zài zhōngguó.) - He was born in China. | |
| 5. pupil; disciple; student | |
| 你 作為 全日制 生 必須 定期 上課。 (Nǐ zuòwèi quánrìzhì shēng bìxū dìngqī shàngkè.) - As a full-time student, you should attend classes on a regular basis. | |
| 6. (historical) scholar; Confucian scholar | |
| 7. (opera) actor or male character | |
| 8. Short for 先生, gentleman | |
| 9. (Cantonese, honorific, suffix) Short for 先生, Mr. | |
| 10. 陳 生 - Mr. Chan | |
| 11. having life; live | |
| Synonyms: 活 | |
| 規矩 係 死 嘅，人 係 生 嘅。 - Rules are lifeless; humans are not. | |
| 條 魚jyu4-2 啱啱 喺 條 河 度 釣 上soeng5 嚟，仲 係 生saang1 嘅。 - The fish was just caught with a hook and line from the river. It is still alive. | |
| 12. life; existence; being; living | |
| 殺生 (shāshēng) - to destroy a life | |
| 13. fresh; not stale | |
| 14. unripe | |
| 15. raw; uncooked | |
| Antonyms: 熟 | |
| 生 洋蔥 (shēng yángcōng) - raw onions | |
| 我 覺gok3得 呢ni1 塊 肉 仲係 太 生。 - I think this piece of meat is too raw. | |
| 16. (historical ethnography) uncultured; uncultivated; wild; uncivilized; savage | |
| 生 ^黎 (shēng Lí) - wild Li | |
| 17. strange; unfamiliar | |
| 生人 (shēngrén) - stranger | |
| 18. mechanically; forcedly | |
| 19. very; quite; extremely | |
| 生怕 (shēngpà) - to fear; to be afraid of | |
| 20. vivid; strong; forceful | |
| 21. innate; natural; born with | |
| 22. living things; organism | |
| 23. livelihood; subsistence | |
| 謀生 (móushēng) - to make a living | |
| 24. lifetime; all one's life | |
| 來生 (láishēng) - afterlife | |
| 25. birthday; anniversary | |
| 慶生 (qìngshēng) - to celebrate one's birthday | |
| 26. to bring back to life; to revive; to rescue | |
| 27. to generate; to breed; to create | |
| 28. to manufacture; to produce | |
| 29. to happen; to occur; to take place | |
| 30. to catch (a disease) | |
| 我 生 了 什麼 病？ (Wǒ shēng le shénme bìng?) - What disease have I got? | |
| 生seⁿ蛇 (seⁿ-chôa) - to have shingles, MN | |
| 31. to be infested by a parasite | |
| 生 跳蚤 (shēng tiàozǎo) - to be infested with fleas | |
| 生 蝨乸 - to be infested with lice | |
| 32. (Buddhism) to go into society; to be reincarnated | |
| 33. (dialectal) to set up; to put in; to settle | |
| 34. to light; to ignite (a fire) | |
| 母親 沒 有 生 爐子zi。 (Mǔqīn méi yǒu shēng lúzi.) - Mother did not light the stove. | |
| 35. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note high do (1̇). | |
| Synonyms: 仩 | |
| 36. (Hong Kong, honorific, suffix) -san, when referring to a Japanese person | |
Pronunciation
yī shēng
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