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scientist

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🇺🇸 /sˈaɪʌntɪst/ 🇬🇧 /ˈsaɪəntɪst/
noun 编号: S00623 牛津3000 BNC #1684 COCA #1057
scientist 指运用科学方法研究可测量世界、提出并检验问题的人,即“科学家”。
💡 记忆钩子
把 scientist 想成一个用科学方法追问世界的人:他可以进行原创研究,也可以运用别人的研究成果;物理学家、数学家等都可能属于 scientist。
📖 中文释义
noun
  • core 科学家
    📖 指运用科学方法来回答关于可测量世界的问题的人。这个词强调研究活动和方法,不限于某一个学科,因此物理学家、数学家或自然科学研究者都可能被称为 scientist。
    💡 常用句型是 “The scientist + 动词” 或 “a scientist in + 学科领域”,例如说明某人进行研究、测试或解释现象。scientist 是可数名词,单数前通常要有 a、the 或其他限定词,复数 scientists 可表示一类人。不要把 scientist 误解成只会做实验的人,也不要把它和表示“科学的”的形容词混用。
    The scientist tested the water to find out why the fish were dying.
    这位科学家检测了水质,以查明鱼为什么会死。
    Many scientists are studying how the climate is changing.
    许多科学家正在研究气候如何变化。
scientists plural
📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 1 组
a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences
同义词集: scientist
上位: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul 下位: biologist, chemist, geologist, investigator, life scientist, linguist, linguistic scientist, mathematician, physicist, pi, principal investigator, psychologist, research worker, researcher
🌳 词源
该词由英国哲学家兼科学史家威廉·惠威尔于1834年提出,仿照 artist 构成,源自拉丁语词根“scientia”(知识)和后缀“-ist”。
Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in March 1834 in an anonymous review of Mary Somerville's book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences in the Quarterly Review as a suggested replacement for, and later seriously introduced by him in 1840 (see the quotation) as a more precise substitute for, the terms natural philosopher and man of science. Modeled after artist, from the Latin stem scientia (“knowledge”) + -ist.
🔄 变式
scientists plural
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