单词 | bedside |
释义 | bedsiden. Place or position by a bed: used in various phrases, to signify proximity to, companionship with, or attendance on, one confined to bed. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > bed for sick person > bedside bedsidec1374 c1374 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 99 Right at my beddis side. c1440 Gesta Romanorum i. 3 My wif..wolle hyde his body by hire beddys syde. a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 1362 The damysell..Set hym on her bed-syde. 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. iv. sig. B7v A meere dull Physician, His practice is some businesse at bed-sides. 1713 A. Pope Narr. Robert Norris 21 Snatch'd up a Peruke-Block, that stood by the Bed-side. 1752 C. Lennox Female Quixote I. iii. viii. 176 Never-ceasing attendance at the bed-side of her sick father. 1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. lv. 94 He instantly hurried to his friend's bedside. Compounds C1. attributive, as bedside book, bedside literature. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > book for specific occasion > [noun] > specific Christmas book1769 lounging-booka1797 lounge-book1800 railway novel1849 birthday book?1859 livre de chevet1883 bed-book1906 pillow book1906 bedside book1920 bedside literature1920 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxviii. 416 A female servant came out..to shake some bed-side carpets. 1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing viii. 46 If the patient can turn on his side, he will eat more comfortably from a bed-side table. 1879 C. M. Yonge Magnum Bonum II. xxvii. 570 Poor Janet found the thing in the back of the bedside table-drawer. 1920 Cornhill Mag. July 63 Bedside Books. 1920 Cornhill Mag. July 64 Bedside literature. 1949 D. Smith I capture Castle (U.K. ed.) i. ii. 12 I keep my bedside candlestick on a battered tin trunk. C2. bedside manner n. the deportment of a doctor towards his or her patient. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > practice of healing art > [noun] > bedside manner bedside manner1869 1869 E. Prentiss Stepping Heavenward (1870) xxv. 237 He was her ‘pet-doctor’, he had such ‘sweet, bed-side manners’. 1884 Punch 15 Mar. 121 Lady Visitor. ‘Oh that's your Doctor, is it? What sort of a doctor is he?’ Lady Resident. ‘Oh well, I don't know much about his ability; but he's got a very good bedside manner!’ 1907 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 Dec. 1845/1 The ordinary notion is that a good bedside manner consists of suavity carried to the verge of civility. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.c1374 |
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