英语词汇dope的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

dope; dopey. Dope for drugs is an Americanism of Dutch origin, deriving from the Dutch doop, “sauce or gravy.” It is only since the late 1890s that stupid people have been called dopes, or dopey (like Dopey of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), as if they were under the influence of dope. The word was first recorded as doop, or “gravy,” in 1807 by Washington Irving. It then came to mean any preparation containing unknown substances (1872), and then drugs (1895), possibly because these were mysterious unknown substances to most people. How dope came to mean information, or knowledge, a usage first recorded in 1901, is anybody’s guess. Maybe know- ing the dope, or “inside information,” first alluded to knowing what was inside preparations whose constituents were un- known to most people. “Gimme a dope” still means “Give me a Coca-Cola” in the South, especially among teenagers, and dates back to the 19th century when the fabled soft drink was touted as a tonic and contained a minute amount of cocaine. Coca-Cola’s inventor, druggist John S. Pemberton, brewed the drink in his backyard and knew it was done when he smelled the cooked cocaine—no reactions in the man or among his neighbors are reported.

词汇	dope
词源	dope; dopey. Dope for drugs is an Americanism of Dutch origin, deriving from the Dutch doop, “sauce or gravy.” It is only since the late 1890s that stupid people have been called dopes, or dopey (like Dopey of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), as if they were under the influence of dope. The word was first recorded as doop, or “gravy,” in 1807 by Washington Irving. It then came to mean any preparation containing unknown substances (1872), and then drugs (1895), possibly because these were mysterious unknown substances to most people. How dope came to mean information, or knowledge, a usage first recorded in 1901, is anybody’s guess. Maybe know- ing the dope, or “inside information,” first alluded to knowing what was inside preparations whose constituents were un- known to most people. “Gimme a dope” still means “Give me a Coca-Cola” in the South, especially among teenagers, and dates back to the 19th century when the fabled soft drink was touted as a tonic and contained a minute amount of cocaine. Coca-Cola’s inventor, druggist John S. Pemberton, brewed the drink in his backyard and knew it was done when he smelled the cooked cocaine—no reactions in the man or among his neighbors are reported.
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