opium
/ˈəʊpɪəm/noun
mass noun
- a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used illicitly as a narcotic and occasionally in medicine as an analgesic鸦片。
短语
the opium of the people（或masses）
- something regarded as inducing a false and unrealistic sense of contentment among people精神鸦片。
- ORIGIN: translating the German phrase Opium des Volks, used by Marx in reference to religion (1844).
词源
late Middle English: via Latin from Greek opion 'poppy juice', from opos 'juice', from an Indo-European root meaning 'water'.