anthropologist

anthropologist — 名詞

1. a scientist whose job is to research how human groups live, what they believe, a

1.名詞B2
釋義

人類學家

研究人類社會、文化與信仰的科學家

a scientist whose job is to research how human groups live, what they believe, and how their families, languages, and cultures change over time.

例句

Dr. Hiro is an anthropologist who spent two years living with farmers in rural Peru.

田中博士是一位人類學家，曾在祕魯的鄉村跟農民一起生活兩年。

be + an anthropologist + who-clause for describing a person's role

The museum hired three anthropologists to record stories told by Inuit elders.

博物館聘請了三位人類學家，負責記錄因紐特長者口述的故事。

plural use after a number

同義詞
  • ethnographer

    narrower — focuses specifically on writing detailed accounts of one community's daily life

  • ethnologist

    compares cultures across societies; older, more academic term

  • social scientist

    much broader; covers economists, sociologists, and political scientists too

文法句型

a/an + anthropologist

anthropologist + at/from + institution

用法筆記

Subject is usually a named person or institution. Often paired with a prepositional phrase naming the field site, university, or specialism (e.g. 'an anthropologist at Yale', 'a medical anthropologist').

常見錯誤

❌She is anthropologist.
✅She is an anthropologist.
💡countable noun, needs 'a/an' or a determiner.
❌He studies anthropologist at university.
✅He studies anthropology at university.
💡the field is 'anthropology'; the person is 'anthropologist'.