«она будет работать глазным врачом на Дальнем Востоке» / Lingvo Live

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Anna Rastizarasked for translation 7 years ago

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она будет работать глазным врачом на Дальнем Востоке

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She's going to work as an eye doctor in the Far East.
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⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 7 years ago

Elena, this sounds like a plan, so GOING TO lends itself more naturally. And ophthalmologist is just one of the specialties that falls under the general heading of EYE DOCTOR - the other is optometrist.

Elena Bogomolovaadded a comment 7 years ago

I had doubts and looked it up in OED:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/eye_doctor

At least in Russia all eye doctors are called ophthalmologists...

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=eye+doctor%2C+ophthalmologist&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ceye%20doctor%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cophthalmologist%3B%2Cc0

⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 7 years ago

ophthalmologists and optometrists are all EYE DOCTORS: https://www.allaboutvision.com/eye-doctor/choose.htm

Elena Bogomolovaadded a comment 7 years ago

OK, clear!

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