cocaine

英 [k?(?)'ke?n] 美[ko'ken]

CET6TEM8IELTS考研中低頻詞擴展詞匯

1、coca + -ine(chemical suffix).
2、古柯(Coca)是原產于拉丁美洲的一種植物，該植物含有古柯堿(cocaine)，被用于制作麻醉藥，該植物的葉子還被用作可口可樂飲料的原料。
3. 音譯“可卡因”。

cocaine 可卡因

coca, 南美經濟作物。-ine, 化學后綴。

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 coca?ne) 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. The police moved in, arrested him and impounded the cocaine.: 警察沖進去將他拘捕并沒收了可卡因。

2. He spent a number of years hooked on cocaine, heroin and alcohol.: 他有好幾年時間吸食可卡因和海洛因成癮，還整日酗酒。

4. The anti-drug sweep had netted nearly 900 kilogrammes of cocaine.: 掃毒行動已繳獲了近900千克的可卡因。

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