【句子】When he was sick, I nursed him. 【Desperate Housewives S2E5】

【发音技巧】nursed him击穿+连读；

【翻译】在他生病的时候，我悉心照顾他。

今天我们来学习一下nurse当动词的用法。

大家都知道nurse当名词，是“护士”的意思；当动词nurse可以理解成：“照顾；照看”的意思；

to care for a person or an animal while they are ill

eg: He gave up his job so that he could nurse his mother at home.

他放弃了他的工作，以便可以在家里照顾他的妈妈。

而且nurse当这个用法的时候，还有一个常见的短语搭配：

nurse sb./sth. back to health

to care for a sick person/animal until good health returns

“照顾一个受伤的人/动物，直到它恢复健康”；

eg: They found an injured cat and carefully nursed it back to health.

他们发现了一只受伤的猫，仔细照顾了它，直到它恢复健康。

eg: Sally was glad to help nurse her mother back to health.

莎莉很高兴能帮忙照顾她的妈妈，直到她恢复健康。

eg: She nursed her children back to health when they all had the flu.

孩子们都患上流感的时候，她照顾他们直到他们恢复健康。

eg: He worked in a hospital for ten years nursing cancer patients.

他在一家医院里工作了十年，照看癌症病人。

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She nursed her husband devotedly through his last illness.

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