Attending
“Attending” 可指 physically attending an event(出席活动),也可指 attending to details(处理细节)或医疗语境中的 attending physician(主治医师)。根据搭配区分“到场”与“专心照料”。
- “Over two hundred students are attending the lecture today.” (今天有两百多名学生来听讲座。)
- “Thank you for attending to this matter so quickly.” (感谢你这么快处理这件事。)
- “The attending nurse checked his vitals every hour.” (值班护士每小时检查他的生命体征。)
Attend 来自拉丁语 attendere,ad-(向)+ tendere(伸展、留意),原义“把注意力伸过去”。
attend + -ing;名词 attendance,形容词 attendant。
商务邮件常用 Thank you for attending;医院 hierarchy 里 attending doctor 指资深主治,是美式医疗英语固定说法。
- 原形: attend
- 过去式: attended
- 名词: attendance
- 固定搭配: “attending school” (上学), “attending physician” (主治医师)
把 attend 想成“把注意力伸过去”,attending 要么是“人伸过去了(出席)”,要么是“注意力伸过去了(照料)”。
“While attending a wedding, she kept attending to her phone until her friend joked that she wasn’t attending the wedding at all.” (参加婚礼时她一直在看手机,朋友笑说她根本没在“出席”婚礼。)