- 1Kool-Aid(美國兒童果汁粉品牌;台灣很少見,別當成「菓珍」)
Kool-Aid is an American brand of drink powder. You mix it with water and a lot of sugar, and you get a very sweet, very bright cold drink — red, purple, orange, and so on. In the US it is a children’s picnic drink, not something grown-ups order in a café. The name is a trademark, so it keeps its capital letters. Though actually, English speakers often stretch it. “To drink the Kool-Aid” means to believe a group or a leader without asking questions. That saying comes from a real mass death in 1978, when people in a closed group were made to drink poison mixed to look like a sweet drink. So the packet in the supermarket is innocent; the idiom is not. Students will hear both, and they are not the same mood.
組成A trademark, presumably from cool plus -ade (as in lemonade), with the spelling also nodding to aid.
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。
Kool-Aidname詞源 1
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A sweet, non-carbonated drink made with artificial flavors.
Kool-Aidnoun詞源 2
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A fad or ideology that is adopted unquestioningly, ignoring its hidden dangers or disadvantages.
- The problem today isn't really with the Kool Aids; it's with society's refusal to distinguish between him and all the rest who fall into the hands of the system.
- Pfizer reps departed training with a “Pass me the Kool-Aid” conviction that not only were our drugs the best in the industry, but also that our company was the best in the world.
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