• n. [藥][毒物] 海洛因，嗎啡

商標名，嗎啡替代物，來自hero,英雄，-in,化學名詞后綴。因這種藥物讓人產生飄飄然的感覺而得名。

heroin (n.)

1898, from German Heroin, coined 1898 as trademark registered by Friedrich Bayer & Co. for their morphine substitute, traditionally from Greek heros (see hero (n.1)) because of the euphoric feeling the drug provides, but no evidence for this seems to have been found so far.

A new hypnotic, to which the name of "heroin" has been given, has been tried in the medical clinic of Professor Gerhardt in Berlin. ["The Lancet," Dec. 3, 1898]

1. The US heroin market now appears to have reached a plateau.

美國的海洛因市場現在似乎已到了停滯期。

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2. Withdrawal from heroin is actually like a severe attack of gastric flu.

戒斷海洛因的過程實際上就像患了一場嚴重的胃腸型流感。

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3. He spent a number of years hooked on cocaine, heroin and alcohol.

他有好幾年時間吸食可卡因和海洛因成癮，還整日酗酒。

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4. He began by reading everything he could find out about heroin.

他從閱讀所有能找到的有關海洛因的資料開始。

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5. Many of the women are addicted to heroin and cocaine.

這些女人中很多人都吸食海洛因和可卡因成癮了。

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