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Drunk 3730.Drunk 英 Drʌŋk]美 Drʌŋk 释义 V 喝酒(Drink的过去分词)Adj

正面 3730.drunk
英 [drʌŋk]美 [drʌŋk]

背面
释义:
v. 喝酒(drink的过去分词)adj. 喝醉了的
例句:
1. "Tired and emotional" is a code word for being drunk.“又累又激动”是形容人喝醉酒的一种委婉说法。

1. 新鲜人。

drunk (adj.)past participle of drink, used as an adjective from mid-14c. in sense "intoxicated." In various expressions, such as "drunk as a lord" (1891); Chaucer has "dronke ... as a Mous" (c. 1386); and, from 1709, "as Drunk as a Wheelbarrow." Medieval folklore distinguished four successive stages of drunkenness, based on the animals they made men resemble: sheep, lion, ape, sow. Drunk driver first recorded 1948. Drunk-tank "jail cell for drunkards" attested by 1912, American English. The noun meaning "drunken person" is from 1852; earlier this would have been a drunkard."

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