surgery
n
1 [U] treatment of injuries or diseases by cutting or removing parts of the body 外科; 手术
qualified in surgery and medicine 内外 科合格的
prepare the patient for surgery 给病人做术前准备
He underwent open-heart surgery. 他接受了体外循环心脏手术.
cosmetic surgery 美容外科.
2 (Brit)
(a) [C] place where a doctor, dentist, etc sees his patients (医师的)门诊处, 诊所.
(b) [U] time during which a doctor, etc is available to see patients at his surgery 门诊时间
Surgery lasts from 9 am to 10 am. 门诊时间为上午9时至10时.
[attrib 作定语]
`surgery hours 门诊时间.
3 [C] (Brit infml 口) time when a Member of Parliament can be consulted by the people he represents (议员对选民的)接待时间
She holds her surgery on Fridays at 6 pm. 她星期五下午6时接待选民.
However, in recent times the old-age pension has only been paid to the poorest people because there has been an increase in the number of people out of work.189
然而阳近一段时间,老年养老金只付给那些最穷的人,因为失业的人数一直在增长。
Neither of us realized that night that these carvings and paintings dated back 15,000 years,