今日も Reader's Digest 12/1月合併号の記事 'You Own Every Bullet' から引用します。
Our MRAP raced to where the truck had turned around, spotlights piercing the darkness, guns up and out. Two men--dumped from the truck--lay on the ground, on twitching and bleeding. The platoon medic kept them alive until a medevac helicopter arrived and ferried them to a hospital.
"medevac" を辞書で引きます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: The evacuation of military or other casualties to the hospital in a helicopter or airplane.: Five men were injured and were lifted by medevac helicopter to another base in Iraq.
上記は名詞としての説明ですが、"medevac" は動詞、形容詞としても使われ、下記は形容詞としての説明です。
・Collins Dictionary: of or having to do with such an evacuation or the aircraft used, esp. helicopters
"medevac" は "medical" と "evacuation" から生まれた合成語ですね。
Our MRAP raced to where the truck had turned around, spotlights piercing the darkness, guns up and out. Two men--dumped from the truck--lay on the ground, on twitching and bleeding. The platoon medic kept them alive until a medevac helicopter arrived and ferried them to a hospital.
"medevac" を辞書で引きます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: The evacuation of military or other casualties to the hospital in a helicopter or airplane.: Five men were injured and were lifted by medevac helicopter to another base in Iraq.
上記は名詞としての説明ですが、"medevac" は動詞、形容詞としても使われ、下記は形容詞としての説明です。
・Collins Dictionary: of or having to do with such an evacuation or the aircraft used, esp. helicopters
"medevac" は "medical" と "evacuation" から生まれた合成語ですね。
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