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To breathalyze someone is to make them breathe into a special machine so the police can see if there is too much alcohol on their breath to be allowed to drive. Officers breathalyze drivers at stops or after a crash. It is a police and law word, not a kitchen-table one. The spelling breathalyze is the American one; British writing often has breathalyse. Though actually, the verb came after the machine's name: people had Breathalyzer first, then cut it down to make a verb. The test is of breath, not of blood; a blood test is a different, later step.
酒測
組成The verb was cut out of breathalyzer after that machine name already existed (a back-formation). It was not built from breath + analyze as a fresh pair.
同家族的字
- Breathalyzerthe machine name this verb was cut from
- breathalyzerthe same gadget-name used as an ordinary noun
原始詞典資料1 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。
breathalyzeverb
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To estimate the alcohol content of a person's blood by using a breathalyzer
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。