bromide: [19] Potassium bromide is used as a sedative, and it was that which inspired the American humorist Gelett Burgess’s book Are You A Bromide? (1906), in which he metaphoricized bromide as a ‘dull conventional person’. In British English it is the more abstract figurative sense ‘trite or conventional remark’ that has caught on. Bromide was based on bromine [19], the name of a liquid element, which in turn was formed from French brome. The element was so christened, from Greek brōmos ‘stench’, because of its highly irritant and unpleasant smell.
bromide (n.)
compound of bromine and another metal or radical, 1836, from bromine, the pungent, poisonous element, + -ide. Used as a sedative; figurative sense of "dull, conventional person or trite saying" popularized by U.S. humorist Frank Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) in his book "Are You a Bromide?" (1906). Related: Bromidic.
实用例句
1. The addition of hydrogen bromide involves the attachment of an anionic nucleophile in the final step.
溴化氢加成的最后一步,是负离子亲核试剂的附加.
来自辞典例句
2. Other liquids that are used in manometry are water, organic liquids and bromide compounds.
压力计中所用的其它液体有水, 有机溶液以及溴化物溶液.
来自辞典例句
3. The molluscacidal medicated additive is bromoacetyl bromide or niclosamide.
所述的灭螺药物添加剂为溴乙酰胺或氯硝柳胺.
来自互联网
4. The writer analyzed the and disadvantage on phasing - out methyl bromide in China.
本文分析了我国淘汰甲基溴的利弊.
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5. Run out: Output film or bromide from a phototypesetting machine.
