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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”。

  1. “Over two hundred students are attending the lecture today.” (今天有两百多名学生来听讲座。)
  2. “Thank you for attending to this matter so quickly.” (感谢你这么快处理这件事。)
  3. “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。)