| 词汇 | drunk |
| 词根词缀 | 词源： pp. of drink, used as an adj. from mid-14c. In various expressions, e.g. "drunk as a lord" (1891); Chaucer has "dronke ... as a Mous" (c.1386); and, my personal favorite, from 1709, is, "He's as Drunk as a Wheelbarrow." Medieval folklore distinguished four successive stages of drunkenness, based on the animals they made men resenble: sheep, lion, ape, sow. Drunk driver first recorded 1948. Drunk-tank "jail cell for drunkards" is 1947, Amer.Eng. The noun meaning "drunken person" is from 1852; earlier this would have been a drunkard. 词根记忆： a. 醉酒的;(喻)陶醉的n.酗酒者,醉汉The hungry drunk plunged a trunk of lungs into the tunnel under the channel.饥饿的醉汉把一大箱肺投进了水渠下面的隧道. |
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