administer和一句話

03-02

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administer的用法

表示「給葯」的意思時，administer可以等同於give。

如果它的主語是人或動物，則寫成The rats were administered penicillin，一般administered後面要接藥物或治療的名稱，不能單獨寫成The rats were administered，就好像一般不寫成The rats were given，後面要接具體的藥物或治療。

如果administer的主語是藥物或治療，則可以寫成Penicillin was administered (to rats)...，在這種情況下，administered後面也可以不接to rats，如：Penicillin was administered for 10 days，就好像我們可以寫成Penicillin was given for 10 days。

從一個句子看如何把意思講清楚

All the rats were administered by caudal vein injection; the rats in group A were given magnesium isoglycyrrhizinate, and those in groups B and C were given normal saline for 10 days.

以上句子有幾個問題：

1. administer的用法不妥，具體使用方法見上面「administer的用法」

2. 這個10天到底是僅對group B和group C而言，還是對所有組而言，並不是很明確，至少從字面上看似乎僅針對group B和group C而言。為了讓意思更為明確，可以改成如下形式，這樣至少可以明確10天是針對所有組別而言：

All the rats were treated by caudal vein injection for 10 days; the rats in group A were given magnesium isoglycyrrhizinate, and those in groups B and C were given normal saline.

這句話可以改進成更為閃光的一個句子：

All the rats were injected via the caudal vein with magnesium isoglycyrrhizinate (for group A) ornormal saline (for groups B and C) for 10 days.

值得一提的是，這裡用or很重要，表示magnesium isoglycyrrhizinate和normal saline不是同時使用，而是有的大鼠用前者，有的用後者。如：The rats were assigned to receive A or B. 這裡如果用and，容易讓人誤解成同時服用A葯和B葯。