• Raisin meditation
• Spycam in Korea
• MTR derailing
• Coast guard
• Emojis showing disabilities
• The 'surprises' of the 91st Oscars
• City of toys
• Overtourism
• French stamps to commemorate the Year of the Pig
• Syrian refugee found new life in Canada
• Does an hour of sleep matter?
• Huge costs of warming impact
• The shop where it's ok to be different
• EU bans single-use plastics
• Legalization of Cannabis in Canada
• Getting to know your new HKID card
• Euthanasia
• Foreign language hits
• Populism
• Escape the corset
• All topics

Medical malpractice

 

medical malpractice 醫療失誤

 

例子：Medical malpractice has raised the eyebrow of the general public recently.

 

值得一提的是，raise one’s eyebrow字面解「揚眉」，那英文意思豈不是「吐氣揚眉」？此言差矣，raise one’s eyebrow，實則指「引起某人的注意」。

 

 

除了 medical malpractice，medical negligence 也指醫療疏忽。

 

例子：Medical negligence has become an increasing concern lately.

 

 

 

practice 練習

(noun 名詞)

例子：It takes hours of practice to learn to play the guitar.

 

in practice 事實上/ 實際上

(prepositional phrase 介詞短語)

例子：In practice some women still receive much lower wages than their male colleagues.

 

practice 習慣、習俗

(noun 名詞)

例子：religious beliefs and practices

例子：It’s their practices to sing and dance to welcome their guests. 

 

put theory to practice  學以致用、實踐

(idiom 慣用語)

 

practise (verb 動詞) + doing something 練習 (做某事)

例子：Today we are going to practise singing.         

 

transplant surgery/ operation 移植手術

 

例子：During the transplant surgery, the doctor was suddenly aware that the blood types of the donor and the recipient were different.

 

donor 捐贈者

(noun 名詞)

 

例子：Poor countries urgently need more assistance from donor countries.

例子：An anonymous donor (無名捐贈者) has given one million dollars towards the charity.

 

recipient領受者

 

 

complaint culture 投訴文化

 

例子：Due to the complaint culture in Hong Kong, there has been a sharp rise in the number of medical blunder (醫療失誤) reported to local newspapers.

 

 

complaint (noun 名詞) + about something

例子：The general public has a lot of complaints about the imperfect healthcare system in Hong Kong.

 

make a complaint about sth/  lodge a complaint about sth

下次寫投訴信時，可以考慮這樣起頭：

例子：I am writing to make/ lodge a complaint about the insufficient surveillance of the local healthcare system.

 

complain (verb 動詞) + about something

例子：She often complains about not feeling appreciated at work.

 

complain of (phrasal verb, formal 片語動詞，正式)

 

身體感到不適或疼痛，正式一點的講法可以用complain of，譬如：

 

例子：He has been complaining of severe headaches.

< Previous	Next >