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You can picture one plain test: is there alcohol in it? Anything that answers yes — a glass of wine, a bottle of beer, a whole shelf of drinks in a bar — is alcoholic. The word starts as a simple label on a liquid, and everything else the word does is a step outward from that label: first to the damage the liquid causes in a body, then to the person whose life the liquid has taken over.
可以想成一個最簡單的檢查：裡面有沒有酒精？答得出「有」的東西——一杯紅酒、一瓶啤酒、酒吧裡整排的飲料——就是 alc…更多收起
可以想成一個最簡單的檢查：裡面有沒有酒精？答得出「有」的東西——一杯紅酒、一瓶啤酒、酒吧裡整排的飲料——就是 alcoholic。這個字一開始只是貼在液體上的一張標籤；它其他的用法都是從這張標籤往外走一步：先走到酒精在身體裡造成的傷害，再走到一個被酒精接管了生活的人。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
alcoholicnoun/ˌæl.kəˈhɒl.ɪk/
- 1
A person who is addicted to alcohol.
- Don't you know you've got your daddy's eyes Daddy was an alcoholic
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
- 2
One who abuses alcohol.
alcoholicadj/ˌæl.kəˈhɒl.ɪk/
- 1
Of or pertaining to alcohol.
- 2
Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents.
- He ordered an alcoholic beverage.
- The oysters were sour, and excessively alcoholic.
- 3
Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。