🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

救护车服务

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jiù hù chē fú wù

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ambulance service/ˈæm.bjə.ləns ˈsɝː.vɪs/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"救护车服务在紧急情况下至关重要。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An established organization responsible for providing emergency medical care and patient transport to medical facilities.

    "The local ambulance service arrived within minutes of the emergency call."
  2. 2

    The fleet of vehicles and medical personnel deployed to handle urgent medical situations.

    "Several units from the city's ambulance service were dispatched to the highway accident."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'ambulance', derived from the Latin 'ambulare' meaning 'to walk' (historically referencing mobile field hospitals), and 'service', from the Latin 'servitium' meaning 'slavery' or 'condition of a servant', later evolving to mean an act of helpful activity. Together, the compound phrase emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries with the modernization of organized emergency medical transport and pre-hospital care systems.

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