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HSK
make-up artist / (fig.) spin doctor; reputation manager
doctor / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 1
doctor; physician
HSK 3
doctor-in-charge / resident physician
candid photograph / genuine photograph (not set up or doctored)
(coll.) to be fitted with an IUD; (of a doctor) to insert an IUD
famous doctor
medical doctor; physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to surgeon 外科醫生|外科医生
doctors and nurses / medic / medical (personnel)
long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
Dwarkanath Kotnis (1910-1942), one of five Indian doctors sent to China to provide medical assistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War
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to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects
HSK 3
Sun Simiao (c. 581-682), doctor and herbalist of the Sui and Tang dynasty, author of Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold 千金要方
doctor of medicine
teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:
HSK 1
to visit a patient at home (of a doctor) / house call
traditional Chinese medical science / a doctor trained in Chinese medicine
to work as a doctor
fake / impostor / quack (doctor) / imitation brand
village doctor (Chinese health care system)
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
"drugs serving to nourish doctors", perceived problem in PRC medical practice
witch doctor / medicine man / shaman
Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning
military doctor
doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
HSK 5
(of a doctor) to see a patient; to give a consultation / (of a patient) to see a doctor
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medical / medicine / doctor / to cure / to treat
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to look at / to see / to see (a doctor) / to visit
HSK 5
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
to make a comeback / (of a doctor's assessment of the gender of a fetus) to turn out to be wrong
(proverb) a long illness makes the patient into a doctor
to give or receive urgent medical treatment / emergency treatment (at a hospital emergency department or from a doctor on a house call)
HSK 7-9
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
doctor
medical personnel / doctors and nurses
lit. a reincarnation of Hua Tuo, the legendary physician of the Eastern Han Dynasty (idiom) / fig. a highly skilled and virtuous doctor; a miracle-working physician
Western medicine / a doctor trained in Western medicine
HSK 2
to visit a doctor / to see a patient
HSK 1
tonic / healthy concoction / (fig.) just what the doctor ordered / (Tw) pirated software
to visit a doctor
examination room (in a doctor's office)
to follow the doctor's advice / as instructed by the physician
Mr Gram / Dr. Hans Christian Jaochim Gram (1953-1938), Danish doctor and inventor of the Gram stain 革蘭氏染色法|革兰氏染色法
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer) / practitioner / professional
lit. to turn to any doctor one can find when critically ill (idiom); fig. to try anyone or anything in a crisis
to seek medical treatment / to see a doctor
HSK 7-9
good doctor / skilled doctor
separating medical consultation from dispensing drugs, proposed policy to counteract perceived PRC problem of "drugs serving to nourish doctors" 以藥養醫|以药养医
forest of apricot trees / (fig.) honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉, 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of paying fees)
to see patients (of doctor) / to hold a surgery
doctor (Chinese medicine) / ancient official title / companions (respectful)
to see a doctor / to seek medical advice
HSK 7-9
another visit to doctor / further diagnosis
(idiom) (of a doctor) to effect a miracle cure
Chinese and Western medicine / a doctor trained in Chinese and Western medicine
ophthalmologist; eye doctor
waiting to see a doctor / awaiting treatment
Doctor of Laws / Legum Doctor
divine physician / sage doctor / highly skilled practitioner
to accompany / (of a doctor etc) to do a follow-up (on a patient, client etc)
prescription (medicine) / doctor's advice
Doctor of Letters
forensic pathologist; forensic doctor; medical examiner
barefoot doctor / farmer with paramedical training (PRC)
doctor-patient
Doctor of Philosophy; PhD
orthopedic doctor
Mesmer (name) / Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Austrian doctor who introduced hypnosis
official in charge of medical affairs / respectful title for a doctor
doctors like to treat those who are not sick so that they can get credit for the patient's "recovery" (idiom)
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF charity) / Doctors Without Borders
healer / physician / medical man / doctor (esp. of TCM)
unlicensed doctor; quack; back-alley or itinerant practitioner
(of a medical graduate) to undertake standardized training (as a resident doctor in a hospital) (abbr. for 規範化培訓|规范化培训)
Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead
(coll.) quack (doctor) / charlatan
(a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes
York Chow or Chow Yat-ngok (1947-), Hong Kong doctor and politician, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food since 2004


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