cocaine

n. [药] 可卡因

中文词源

cocaine 可卡因

coca, 南美经济作物。-ine, 化学后缀。

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]

1、coca + -ine(chemical suffix).2、古柯(Coca)是原产于拉丁美洲的一种植物，该植物含有古柯碱(cocaine)，被用于制作麻醉药，该植物的叶子还被用作可口可乐饮料的原料。3. 音译“可卡因”。

1. The police moved in, arrested him and impounded the cocaine.: 警察冲进去将他拘捕并没收了可卡因。

2. He spent a number of years hooked on cocaine, heroin and alcohol.: 他有好几年时间吸食可卡因和海洛因成瘾，还整日酗酒。

4. The anti-drug sweep had netted nearly 900 kilogrammes of cocaine.: 扫毒行动已缴获了近900千克的可卡因。

5. Many of the women are addicted to heroin and cocaine.: 这些女人中很多人都吸食海洛因和可卡因成瘾了。