- 1n/ˈæsprɪn/阿斯匹靈
A common medicine that makes pain less, brings a high temperature down, and calms swelling and soreness. It usually comes as small white tablets that you swallow with water.
aspirin 是藥局就買得到的常見藥，一種藥同時做三件事：止痛、退燒、消腫消炎。中文常常只說「吃藥」，英文則習慣講出是哪一種，所以除了 take medicine，更常聽到 take an aspirin。文法上它可數也不可數：an aspirin 是「一顆」，some aspirin 是「一些藥」，複數寫 aspirin 或 aspirins 都可以。這個字可以想成裡面藏著一株植物——最早的原料取自一種叫 spiraea 的灌木。
示範例句 · Example
Mum had a bad headache, so she took an aspirin and lay down for ten minutes.
中文翻譯媽媽有一個嚴重的頭痛，所以她吃了一顆阿斯匹靈並躺下十分鐘。
常見搭配
take an aspirin
吃一顆阿斯匹靈
to swallow one aspirin tablet
Dad took an aspirin before the long drive home.
take some aspirin
吃一點阿斯匹靈
to take this medicine, without saying how many tablets
Why don't you take some aspirin and rest for a while?
a daily aspirin
每天一顆（醫師建議的）阿斯匹靈
one small aspirin taken every day, on a doctor's advice
Grandpa's doctor asked him to take a daily aspirin.
be on aspirin
長期在服用阿斯匹靈
to be taking aspirin regularly over a long time
My aunt has been on aspirin since her operation last year.
意思相近
core核心畫面
Think of the small white tablet in the medicine that you swallow with a glass of water when your head hurts, when you have a fever, or when a joint is swollen and sore. It does not cure the illness behind those feelings — it turns the pain, the heat and the swelling down so the body feels easier while it recovers.
容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。
aspirin / aspirins
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Aspirinname/ˈæspɹɪn/
- 1
medicinepharmacologysciencesA marketed variety of acetylsalicylic acid.
aspirinnoun/ˈæs.p(ɪ.)ɹɪn/
- 1
chemistrymedicinenatural-sciencesan analgesic drug, acetylsalicylic acid
- 2
A tablet containing this substance.
- "It nearly drove me insane. I took heaven alone knows how many aspirins."
- I got so worked up writing it that I had to take an aspirin and stop trembling after I finished.
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