| 释义 |
opium/ˈəʊpiəm/n. 1 a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used in medicine as an analgesic and narcotic 鸦片(红棕色，气味浓烈，一种上瘾的麻醉药；从罂粟汁中获得；用于医药，作为止痛剂和麻醉剂) 2 anything regarded as soothing or stupefying 慰藉物，起镇静(或)催眠作用的事物 [Middle English via Latin from Greek opion ‘poppy-juice’, from opos ‘juice’] |