mandrake
英 ['m?ndre?k]
美['m?ndrek]
- n. 曼德拉草（可作鎮(zhèn)靜藥用）
中文詞源
mandrake 茄參，曼陀羅，情花
一種麻醉藥藥物，含劇毒。來自希臘語mandragoras,可能最終來自梵語。俗詞源認(rèn)為該詞來自man,人，drake,公鴨，公鴨叫聲，因這種植物根形如人形，傳說從土中拉出來會發(fā)出尖叫聲，聽到這種叫聲的人都會死去。也稱為曼陀羅花，情花。參照金庸小說《神雕俠侶》。
英文詞源
- mandrake
- mandrake: [14] The mandrake is a Mediterranean plant of the potato family with medicinal uses. Its name is an alteration of mandragora, which goes back via Latin to Greek mandragóras, a word probably of non- Indo-European origin. The change arose owing to an association with man (the mandrake has a large forked root which supposedly resembles a human being) and drake ‘dragon’ (an allusion to the root’s supposedly magical properties).
- mandrake (n.)
- narcotic plant, early 14c., mondrake, from Medieval Latin mandragora, from Latin mandragoras, from Greek mandragoras, probably from a non-Indo-European word. The word was in late Old English in its Latin form; folk etymology associated the second element with dragoun and substituted native drake in its place. The forked root is thought to resemble a human body and is said to shriek when pulled from the ground.
雙語例句
- 1. The antidote is made from mandrake roots ( CS 9 ) .
- 解藥須用 曼德拉 草根做成.
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