【doctor音标】 英[ˈdɒktə(r)] 美[ˈdɑ:ktər]
【单词释义】 doctor是什么意思：
n.医生，大夫；博士；神学家；医疗设备
vt.&vi.医疗，行医
vt.修理，装配；篡改；伪造、假造；搀杂；修改，修饰
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] doctors [第三人称单数] doctors
[单词现在分词] doctoring
[单词过去式] doctored
[单词过去分词] doctored
【关联词/派生词】
doctorate n.博士学位；博士头衔
doctoral adj. 博士的，博士学位的
【doctor形近词/近似词】
victor n.胜利者，获奖者
actor n.演员（尤指男演员）
【单词例句】
◇ But she intended to become a doctor after she came across Lin Qiaozhi by chance, who was delivering medical courses to an audience crowding around her. Before moving off, Lin inspired her to carry on her study.
但是在她偶然遇见了林巧芝之后却打定注意想要成为一名医生，当时林巧芝正在给拥挤在她身边的观众传授医疗课程，在离开之前，林巧芝鼓舞她继续坚持学习。
---- A Woman Doctor-Lina
◇ An apple a day keeps the doctor away is a rhyme many of us can recall from our childhoods - and it may hold some truth.
很多人从小就会说“一天一苹果，医生远离我”这句押韵的俗语，这种说法有一定道理。
---- An apple a day keeps the doctor away
◇ The 37-year-old woman, who is identified only as Jasmine, said she cleaned her ears every night with cotton swabs, according to the Australian magazine That's Life! But over time, she noticed she had trouble hearing out of her left ear, and finally went to the doctor. She was initially told she had an ear infection, and was given antibiotics.
澳大利亚的《这就是生活！》杂志报道称，这位名为茉莉的37岁女性说，她每天晚上用棉签清洁耳朵。久而久之，她注意到左耳听力出现问题，最后去看了医生。一开始，医生说她有耳部感染并给她开了抗生素。
---- Never Cleaning Ears With Cotton Swabs
◇ First, make sure you're wearing well-fitting exercise clothing and sturdy shoes. Before getting on the machine, warm up with stretches and range-of-motion exercises, said Clark Stevenson, owner of Treadmill Doctor, a treadmill repair company based in Memphis, Tennessee. Then step onto the machine and securely attach the safety key to your shirt. If you should become at risk of falling off of the treadmill, the safety key will immediately turn off the machine.
首先，你要确保自己穿上合体的运动服和结实的鞋子。总部在美国田纳西州孟菲斯市的跑步机修理公司“跑步机医生”的老板克拉克·史蒂芬森指出，上跑步机前要先做几组拉伸和全范围关节运动来热身；上跑步机后要先把安全按钮牢牢固定在自己穿的T恤上。如果你要从跑步机上摔下来，安全按钮会立刻让机器停止运转。
---- How to use treadmills safely
◇ Doctors often refer to this eye-watering condition as “crocodile tears,” and a 1920s Russian scientist once suggested that such weakened facial muscles allowed "older, possibly crocodilian neurological pathways to emerge" in humans.
医生们通常把这种流泪症状称为“鳄鱼的眼泪”。20世纪20年代的一位俄罗斯科学家曾指出，这种面部肌肉衰弱可能导致人体起用“更古老的或许是鳄鱼式的神经通路”。
（由此看来，鳄鱼流泪只是进食时身体产生的一种自然生理现象，和同情悔过毫无关系，难怪人们会将虚伪的哭泣比作鳄鱼的眼泪了。）
---- Where does the expression 'crocodile tears'
◇ But doctors have warned against the polite practice, after a man ruptured the back of his throat while trying to contain the convulsive explosion of air.
但是医生警告大家不要采取这种礼貌做法，因为有一名男子正是因为试图把喷嚏憋回去而撕裂了喉咙内侧。
---- Don't hold in a sneeze, It could be the death of you
◇ So, how can you know what's behind your shrinking size? Your doctor will suspect osteoporosis if you have an overall height loss of 1.5 inches or more, Litt says. "This much height loss is a sign of osteoporosis and warrants a bone density test," she says.
那么，怎么知道是什么原因导致自己变矮的呢？利特说，如果你身高缩水总量超过1.5英寸（3.8厘米），你的医生就会怀疑你得了骨质疏松症。她指出：“身高缩水这么多是骨质疏松的迹象，需要进行骨密度测试。”
---- Why do you shrink when you get older
◇ And while I am going to school I want a wife to take care of my children. I want a wife to keep track of the children's doctor and dentist appointments. And to keep track of mine, too.
当我去进修时，我需要妻子照顾孩子，与医生、牙医预约，给孩子和我看病的事得她操心。
---- I Want a Wife
◇ Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called in to study her rare disease.
数年之后，那位女子得了一种罕见的重病，当地医生对此束手无策。最后，她被转到大城市医治，由专家会诊治疗。