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apothecary
药剂师；药师
核心释义
a health professional trained to prepare and dispense drugs
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药剂师,配制和分发药物的健康专业人员
a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs
药剂师,配制和分发药物的健康专业人员；药剂师；药房；[医] 药剂员; 药店
用法In use
Before becoming a doctor, he worked as an apothecary, preparing medicines from plants and minerals.
用法提示：名词 apothecary 意为“药剂师”，在句中作介词 as 的宾语。
She asked the apothecary for something to relieve her cough, and he gave her a bottle of syrup.
用法提示：可数名词 apothecary 此处作 asked 的间接宾语，指代配药的专业人员。
In the eighteenth century, apothecaries not only sold drugs but also gave medical advice.
用法提示：apothecaries 是 apothecary 的复数形式，表示“多位药剂师”，在句中作主语。
work as an apothecary
work as 后接职业名词，表示“担任、从事”。
He worked as an apothecary in the old town.
他在老城区当药剂师。
consult a/the apothecary
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- apothecary's shop
- 药房；药材铺
- She found the remedy at the old apothecary's shop.她在老药房找到了这种药。
- apothecary jar
- （装饰用的）玻璃药罐
- The apothecary jars on the shelf were filled with colorful herbs.架子上的玻璃药罐里装满了五颜六色的草药。
- apothecary's apprentice
- 药剂师学徒
- As an apothecary's apprentice, he learned to mix compounds by hand.作为药剂师的学徒，他学会了手工调配药物。
- apothecary's scale
- 药秤；药剂师天平
- The old apothecary weighed the herbs on a brass apothecary's scale.老药剂师用黄铜药秤称量草药。
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
可联想 a-pothe-cary：pothe 像 pot（药罐），cary 像 carry（拿），药剂师拿着药罐配药。
语境与语域Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：历史小说、古装影视剧、旧时医书 较过时的说法，现在不常用，多用于历史、文学或影视语境，指旧时的药剂师或药铺。
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
押韵组（元音和后续辅音与 -cary /kɛri/ 相同）：berry /ˈbɛri/、ferry /ˈfɛri/、very /ˈvɛri/ 都以 /-ɛri/ 结尾。注意形近音不同的词：scary 含有同样的 -cary 拼写，但标准发音常是 /ˈskeri/（元音 /e/，不是 /ɛ/）；carry 是双写 r，元音为 /æ/。
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