ambulance

• n. [乗り物] [医療]救急車; 戦時中の移動病院

ambleの現在分詞で、もともとは戦場の救急医が負傷者を助けるために担架を運ぶことを指したが、後に独自にambulanceを指すようになった。

ambulance

ambulance: [19] Originally, ambulance was a French term for a field hospital – that is, one set up at a site convenient for a battlefield, and capable of being moved on to the next battlefield when the army advanced (or retreated). In other words, it was an itinerant hospital, and the ultimate source of the term is the Latin verb ambulāre ‘walk’ (as in amble). The earliest recorded term for such a military hospital in French was the 17th-century h?pital ambulatoire.

This was later replaced by h?pital ambulant, literally ‘walking hospital’, and finally, at the end of the 18th century, by ambulance. This sense of the word had died out by the late 19th century, but already its attributive use, in phrases such as ambulance cart and ambulance wagon, had led to its being used for a vehicle for carrying the wounded or sick.
=> acid, alacrity, amble, perambulator

ambulance (n.)

1798, "mobile or field hospital," from French (h?pital) ambulant, literally "walking (hospital)," from Latin ambulantem (nominative ambulans), present participle of ambulare "to walk" (see amble).

AMBULANCE, s. f. a moveable hospital. These were houses constructed in a manner so as to be taken to pieces, and carried from place to place, according to the movements of the army; and served as receptacles in which the sick and wounded men might be received and attended. ["Lexicographica-Neologica Gallica" (The Neological French Dictionary), William Dupré, London, 1801]

The word was not common in English until the meaning transferred from "field hospital" to "vehicle for conveying wounded from field" (1854) during the Crimean War. In late 19c. U.S. the word was used dialectally to mean "prairie wagon." Ambulance-chaser as a contemptuous term for a type of lawyer dates from 1897.

1. We gave the gate money to the St John Ambulance brigade.

私たちはチケット収入をすべて聖ジョン救急隊に寄付しました。

2.He screamed for his wife to call an ambulance .

彼は悲鳴をあげて妻に電話をかけて救急車を呼ばせた。

3.Mrs Hardie had been taken to the infirmary in an ambulance .

ハーディ夫人は救急車で病院に運ばれた。

4.I was close by as Lester was stretchered into the ambulance .

レスターが担架で救急車に運ばれたとき、私はすぐそばにいた。

5.We got an ambulance and rushed her to hospital.

救急車を呼び、急いで病院に搬送した。