• adj. 有耐性的，能容忍的
• n. 病人；患者
• n. (Patient)人名；(法)帕蒂安

來自拉丁語pati,忍受，承受，詞源同passion,passive.-ent,現(xiàn)在分詞后綴。即正在忍受的，正在遭受痛苦的，引申詞義病人。

patient

patient: [14] Etymologically, a patient is someone who is ‘suffering’. The word comes via Old French from the present participle of the Latin verb patī ‘suffer’ (source also of English passion and passive). As an adjective it had already in Latin taken on its present-day sense of ‘bearing affliction with calmness’, but the medical connotations of the noun are a post- Latin development.
=> passion, passive

patient (adj.)

mid-14c., "enduring without complaint," from Old French pacient and directly from Latin patientem "bearing, supporting, suffering, enduring, permitting" (see patience). Meaning "pertaining to a medical patient" is late 14c., from the noun. Related: Patiently.

patient (n.)

"suffering or sick person under medical treatment," late 14c., from Old French pacient (n.), from the adjective, from Latin patientem (see patience).

1. A patient will usually listen to the doctor'sadvice and act on it.

患者通常都會遵照醫(yī)囑行事。

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2. Occasionally a patient is so debilitated that he must be fed intravenously.

偶爾會有病人過于虛弱，必須通過靜脈注射進食。

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3. The patient is sedated with intravenous use of sedative drugs.

靜脈注射了鎮(zhèn)靜劑后病人安然入睡。

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4. The patient rates the therapies on a scale of zero to ten.

患者按十分制給這些治療方法打分。

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5. The earlier the treatment is given, the better the patient's chances.

病人越早接受治療，康復(fù)的可能性就越大。

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