Mrs. Driffield looked as though she had taken a dose of castor oil and had just been trying to get the taste of it out of her mouth by sucking a lemon.
德里菲尔德太太那时的神情就像是吃了一服蓖麻油,正在吮吸一个柠檬以便去掉嘴里的味道。
传说之境
The extremely powerful toxin Ricin, produced in the seeds of the castor oil plant, can kill you if you inhale even one milligram, which has made it popular for assassination attempts and biological warfare around the world.
In other times, after spending the whole day making candy animals, she had more than enough time for the children, to see from the whites of their eyes that they needed a dose of castor oil.
Castor oil is a vegetable oil obtained by pressing the seeds of the castor oil plant (Ricinus communis). The common name "castor oil", from which the plant gets its name, probably comes from its use as a replacement for castoreum, a perfume base made from the dried perineal glands of the beaver (castor in Latin).
近义、反义、联想词
近义词
n.
purgative, cathartic, physic, aperient
英英词典
castor oil n.
a purgative extracted from the seed of the castor plant; used in paint and varnish as well as medically