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).
双语例句
1. A patient will usually listen to the doctor'sadvice and act on it.
患者通常都会遵照医嘱行事。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Occasionally a patient is so debilitated that he must be fed intravenously.
偶尔会有病人过于虚弱，必须通过静脉注射进食。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The patient is sedated with intravenous use of sedative drugs.
静脉注射了镇静剂后病人安然入睡。
来自柯林斯例句
4. The patient rates the therapies on a scale of zero to ten.
患者按十分制给这些治疗方法打分。
来自柯林斯例句
5. The earlier the treatment is given, the better the patient's chances.