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生病難受要趕緊去醫(yī)院看看
你是不是想到了
“Go to hospital”?
但其實在英語國家
“Go to hospital”不是這么用的
“Go to hospital”本身完全沒問題
問題就在于中西文化的差異
“Go to hospital”真正的意思
和我們中文說的“去醫(yī)院”并不完全相同。
如果身體不舒服，我們常說“去醫(yī)院”，
而外國人則常說“去看醫(yī)生”。
這兩個有什么區(qū)別呢?
hospital在英文里指的是綜合大醫(yī)院，
并且有住院的意思
所以當你說
你要go to hospital的時候，
外國人會認為你病的很嚴重或者有外傷。
并且到了要住院的程度，
非常容易產生誤會。
在他們的認知里，感冒發(fā)燒或者某些小病，
一般就找家庭醫(yī)生，或是去診所(clinic)。
這個叫：
see a doctor 看醫(yī)生
go to a doctor 看醫(yī)生
例：
I'll see a doctor on Monday.
我星期一去看醫(yī)生。
go to hospital和go to the hospital千萬別混淆
The difference is that “go to hospital” means that you are or will be a patient in the hospital.
它們倆的區(qū)別就在于“go to hospital”的意思是你現在是或將是這個醫(yī)院的病人。
“Go to the hospital” means that you are not a patient. You are going there for some other reason.
“Go to the hospital”就不含有你是病人的意思。你可能是有其他的原因要去醫(yī)院這個地方而已。
So, “he had to go to hospital” means he was admitted as a patient there, and “he had to go to the hospital” means that he was there in some other capacity than as a patient, as in “He had to go to the hospital to pick up his mother , who is being released.”
所以，“he had to go to hospital”這句話就含有他是這個醫(yī)院被確診的病人的意思，“he had to go to the hospital”則意味著他以病人以外的其他身份在那里，就跟這句話“He had to go to the hospital to pick up his mother , who is being released.”(他得去醫(yī)院接他要出院的母親。)似的。
