| 单词 | hospital porter |
| 释义 | > as lemmashospital porter hospital porter n. (see porter n.1). hospital porter e. More fully hospital porter. A hospital employee who moves equipment or patients. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > non-medical worker > [noun] > hospital attendant wardsman1896 porter1907 whitecoat1911 sanitar1916 ward orderly1946 ward aide1965 1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent v. 122 The hospital porter and another man turned down the corners of the cloth, and stepped aside. a1948 D. Welch Voice through Cloud (1950) iv. 39 When the porters..started to wheel him out of the ward, he sat up on the trolley, so that the red blankets fell off him. 1964 D. Francis Nerve vi. 64 The nurse came back with a stretcher trolley and two khaki-overalled porters... We waited outside in the hall, and saw them trundle Pip off towards the open lift. 1996 Independent 19 Mar. 14/7 Ideally I would suggest they [sc. surplus NHS executives] work out their contracts as hospital porters—a post from which they will see the realities of the NHS with new eyes. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。