booze
noun/buːz/
/buːz/
[uncountable] (informal)- alcoholic drink
含酒精饮料 - Now he’s off the booze (= he has given up drinking alcohol), he’s a different person.
现在他戒了酒（=他已经戒酒了），他是一个不同的人。
Extra ExamplesTopics Social issuesc2, Drinksc2- He turned to booze (= started drinking a lot of alcohol) when his wife died.
妻子死后，他开始酗酒。 - He was dry for years but now he's back on the booze.
他多年不沾酒，但现在又开始喝了。 - I could smell booze on his breath.
我能从他的呼吸中闻到酒味。 - She's been off the booze for a month now.
到现在她已经一个月滴酒不沾了。 - She's still trying to kick the booze.
她仍在努力戒酒。 - There was free booze at the party.
聚会上有免费的酒水。 - We need to take some booze to the party.
我们需要带些酒去参加聚会。 - The party was great but we had run out of booze by midnight.
派对办得很成功，但到午夜时我们的酒便不够喝了。 - They went to buy some cheap booze.
他们去买一些便宜的酒。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- cheap
- free
- smell
- bring
- take
- …
- problem
- cruise
- cruise
- …
- off the booze
- on the booze
Word OriginMiddle English bouse, from Middle Dutch būsen ‘drink to excess’. The spelling booze dates from the 18th cent. - Now he’s off the booze (= he has given up drinking alcohol), he’s a different person.