biologist

biologist — 名詞

1. a scientist whose job is to study living things — plants, animals, or even tiny

1.名詞B1
釋義

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.

例句

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

同義詞
  • 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

I study biologist at university.
I study biology at university.
💡'biologist' is the person; 'biology' is the subject.
She is biologist.
She is a biologist.
💡countable; needs an article.