cocaine
发音
How to pronounce cocaine in British English:
英 [kəʊˈkeɪn]
How to pronounce cocaine in American English:
美 [koʊˈkeɪn]
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- Noun:
- a narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves; used as a surface anesthetic or taken for pleasure; can become powerfully addictive
单词词源
- cocaine
- cocaine: [19] Cocaine is made from the dried leaves of the coca bush, a plant native to the Andes, and its name was formed (perhaps originally in French, as cocaïne) from the plant’s name. That was a local name, Quechua koka, probably from the Aymara language of Bolivia and Peru, and it reached Europe in the 16th century by way of Spanish coca.
- cocaine (n.)
- 1874, from Modern Latin cocaine (1856), coined by Albert Niemann of Gottingen University from coca (from Quechua cuca) + chemical suffix -ine (2). A medical coinage, the drug was used 1870s as a local anaesthetic for eye surgery, etc. "It is interesting to note that although cocaine is pronounced as a disyllabic word it is trisyllabic in its formation." [Flood]
双语例句
- 1. Peru has replaced colombia as the largest cocaine exporter .
- 2. Cocaine and amphetamines are less benign .
- 3. Your daughter is using cocaine .
- 4. The researchers injected cocaine into a fourth group .
- 5. It doesn 't have the side-effects of crack cocaine .