biologist
biologist — 名詞
- biologistsingular
- biologistsplural
1. a scientist whose job is to study living things — plants, animals, or even tiny
生物學家
研究生物及其生命現象的科學家
a scientist whose job is to study living things — plants, animals, or even tiny things like cells and bacteria — and how they grow, behave, and survive.
Yuki is a marine biologist who tags whales off the coast of Iceland.
Yuki 是一位海洋生物學家，在冰島海岸為鯨魚標記追蹤器。
common compound: marine biologist
The biologists at the lab spent six months studying how the new virus spread among bats.
實驗室的生物學家花了六個月研究這種新病毒如何在蝙蝠之間傳播。
biologists + at + organisation
Mert always wanted to be a biologist after watching documentaries about coral reefs as a child.
Mert 從小看珊瑚礁紀錄片之後，就一直想成為生物學家。
want to be + a biologist
A wildlife biologist from the national park counted every wolf in the valley last winter.
去年冬天，國家公園的一位野生動物生物學家清點了山谷裡每一隻狼。
common compound: wildlife biologist
The team includes two biologists, a chemist, and three university students who joined for the summer.
團隊由兩位生物學家、一位化學家，以及三位暑期加入的大學生組成。
- marine biologist
- wildlife biologist
- molecular biologist
- evolutionary biologist
- field biologist
- research biologist
- life scientist
broader umbrella term covering biologists plus related researchers; more formal
- naturalist
older, less technical; usually someone who observes plants and animals in the wild rather than doing lab work
- zoologist
narrower; a biologist who specifically studies animals
文法句型
a/the biologist
biologist + at/from + organisation
marine/wildlife/molecular + biologist
用法筆記
Frequently appears with a specifying word that names the field: 'marine biologist', 'wildlife biologist', 'molecular biologist', 'evolutionary biologist'. The plain noun by itself is fine in everyday talk, but academic and news writing usually adds the specialty.
常見錯誤
同根字
- biology名詞A2
- biological形容詞B2
- biologically副詞C1