- 1威而鋼(男性勃起功能障礙用藥的商品名,藍色小藥丸)。台灣就叫威而鋼,這是藥廠的正式中文名,也是大家口語會講的;學名是「西地那非」sildenafil,只有醫療場合才用。
Viagra is the brand name of a medicine men take for erection problems — when the penis will not become or stay hard enough for sex. It is a small blue tablet, and a doctor's prescription is needed for it. Because it was the first drug of its kind and was talked about everywhere in the news in the late 1990s, the brand name became the ordinary word: people say Viagra even when they mean any similar pill, in the same way people say 普拿疼 for any headache tablet. Two things about the word matter for writing. First, it is a name, so it takes a capital V. Second, it is used very often in jokes and comparisons, not only in medical talk — a newspaper might call something "Viagra for the economy", meaning something that suddenly gives strength or energy back to a thing that had gone weak. That figurative use is common and usually a bit playful or rude. In serious medical writing the drug's real chemical name is sildenafil, and doctors will use that. Socially the word is still slightly to say out loud in Taiwan, so people often lower their voice or use the Chinese slang name.
組成A made-up marketing name. Its makers never fully explained it. It may come from Sanskrit vyāghrá, meaning tiger, and it was probably also built to make people hear words like vigour, virility and victory, together with Niagara — the great waterfall, suggesting force and flow.
原始詞典資料2 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。
Viagraname/vaɪˈæɡɹə/
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medicinepharmacologysciencesA brand name of the drug sildenafil citrate, used to treat erectile dysfunction.
- Just like any other drug that elevates any aspect or level of performance, Viagra has a pretty harsh comedown, so to speak.
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