- a vehicle specially equipped for taking sick or injured people to and from hospital, especially in emergencies救护车:
as modifier the ambulance service.救护车服务。
with obj. and adverbial of direction
- convey (someone) somewhere in an ambulance用救护车送(人):
he was ambulanced to accident and emergency.
他被救护车送到医院事故急救室。
词源
early 19th cent.: French, from hôpital ambulant 'mobile (horse-drawn) field hospital', from Latin ambulant- 'walking' (see AMBULANT).