cocaine: [19] Cocaine is made from the dried leaves of the coca bush, a plant native to the Andes, and its name was formed (perhaps originally in French, as cocaïne) from the plant’s name. That was a local name, Quechua koka, probably from the Aymara language of Bolivia and Peru, and it reached Europe in the 16th century by way of Spanish coca.
cocaine (n.)
1874, from Modern Latin cocaine (1856), coined by Albert Niemann of Gottingen University from coca (from Quechua cuca) + chemical suffix -ine (2). A medical coinage, the drug was used 1870s as a local anaesthetic for eye surgery, etc. "It is interesting to note that although cocaine is pronounced as a disyllabic word it is trisyllabic in its formation." [Flood]
实用例句
1. The police moved in, arrested him and impounded the cocaine.
警察冲进去将他拘捕并没收了可卡因。
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2. He spent a number of years hooked on cocaine, heroin and alcohol.
他有好几年时间吸食可卡因和海洛因成瘾，还整日酗酒。
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3. She became a prostitute in order to pay for her cocaine habit.
她以娼养吸。
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4. The anti-drug sweep had netted nearly 900 kilogrammes of cocaine.
扫毒行动已缴获了近900千克的可卡因。
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5. Many of the women are addicted to heroin and cocaine.
