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.
雙語例句
1. The addition of hydrogen bromide involves the attachment of an anionic nucleophile in the final step.
溴化氫加成的最后一步,是負離子親核試劑的附加.
來自辭典例句
2. Other liquids that are used in manometry are water, organic liquids and bromide compounds.
壓力計中所用的其它液體有水, 有機溶液以及溴化物溶液.
來自辭典例句
3. The molluscacidal medicated additive is bromoacetyl bromide or niclosamide.
所述的滅螺藥物添加劑為溴乙酰胺或氯硝柳胺.
來自互聯網
4. The writer analyzed the and disadvantage on phasing - out methyl bromide in China.
本文分析了我國淘汰甲基溴的利弊.
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5. Run out: Output film or bromide from a phototypesetting machine.