archeologist

archeologist — 名詞

1. a scientist who digs up and studies old buildings, tools, bones, and other objec

1.名詞B1
釋義

考古學家

研究古代人類遺跡的學者

a scientist who digs up and studies old buildings, tools, bones, and other objects left by people from the distant past, in order to understand how they lived

例句

Dr. Amani, the lead archeologist, discovered a 2,000-year-old tomb near the Nile river.

首席考古學家 Amani 博士在尼羅河附近發現了一座兩千年的古墓。

archeologist + discovered [ancient object/place]

A team of young archeologists worked with local students to study the old village site.

一群年輕的考古學家與當地學生合作，研究那處古老的村落遺址。

同義詞
  • archaeologist

    identical meaning; this is the more common international spelling

  • excavator

    narrower — refers specifically to someone who digs at a site, not the full range of analytical work

用法筆記

This is the American English spelling; the British and international spelling is archaeologist (with the digraph ae). Both are pronounced the same way.

常見錯誤

❌An archeologist studies living tribes in the Amazon.
✅An archeologist studies old objects and buildings from the past.
💡Archeologists study ancient remains; anthropologists study living cultures.
❌The archeaologist found a fossilized dinosaur bone.
✅The archeologist found an ancient clay pot at the dig site.
💡The correct spelling has 'eo' (not 'ea'), and archeologists study human artifacts, not dinosaur fossils (that is paleontology).