ecologist

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ecologist — 名詞

  • ecologistsingular
  • ecologistsplural

1. a scientist whose job is to study how living things — like animals, plants, and

1.名詞B2
釋義

生態學家

研究生物與環境關係的科學家

a scientist whose job is to study how living things — like animals, plants, and tiny organisms — share space and depend on each other in a forest, river, ocean, or other natural area.

例句

Rafael works as an ecologist counting frogs in the rainforest near his village.

Rafael 是位生態學家，工作是在他村莊附近的雨林裡計算青蛙數量。

work as a/an + [profession]

A team of ecologists is studying how tigers and farmers can share the same valley.

一組生態學家正在研究老虎和農夫如何共享同一個山谷。

a team of ecologists is/are + [study activity]

常見搭配
  • marine ecologist
  • forest ecologist
  • wildlife ecologist
  • urban ecologist
  • team of ecologists
同義詞
  • biologist

    broader; studies any living thing, not only their relationships with the environment.

  • environmental scientist

    wider field; includes pollution, soil, and climate as well as living things.

  • naturalist

    more old-fashioned; observes plants and animals in the wild but may not do formal research.

文法句型

a/the ecologist

ecologists at + institution

用法筆記

Often modified by the kind of environment the scientist studies: 'marine ecologist' (sea), 'forest ecologist', 'wildlife ecologist', 'urban ecologist' (cities). Don't confuse with 'environmentalist', which describes a person who campaigns to protect nature but does not have to be a scientist.

常見錯誤

My uncle is an ecologist who plants trees on weekends to save the planet.
My uncle is an environmentalist who plants trees on weekends to save the planet.
without scientific training, the right word is 'environmentalist'.
She studies ecologist at university.
She studies ecology at university.
the subject is 'ecology'; the person is 'ecologist'.

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常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • marine ecologist
  • forest ecologist
  • wildlife ecologist
  • urban ecologist
  • team of ecologists
  • leading ecologist

常用片語

  • work as an ecologist
  • according to ecologists

介系詞搭配

  • ecologist at [institution]
  • ecologist with [organisation]