gurney

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n. （医院中推送病人用的）轮床； 邮件车

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gurneys 复数 gurneys

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A stretcher having wheeled legs.

    轮床

    美国

    The death row convict was strapped into the gurney in order to be given the lethal injection.

    I’m pretty sure I didn’t actively steer towards the tree, but… I don’t know. I just remember that wave of despair and then the EMTs pulling me out of the car and putting me on a gurney.

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stretcher

相关短语

Gurney flap Gurney flaps Barrow Gurney Farrington Gurney

词源

Unknown. Possibly from Gurney cab, a type of horse-drawn cab on wheels named after Theodore Gurney, the US inventor credited with creating and patenting it in about 1883. For the surname, see Gurney.

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