| 词汇 | dover-s powder |
| 词源 | Dover’s powder. An early pain-relieving medicine contain- ing opium, sugar, milk, and other ingredients that was invented by and named after English Dr. Thomas Dover (1660–1742), who also won fame as a pirate or privateer. It was the accom- plished Dr. Dover who while returning to England on a cap- tured Spanish man-of-war rescued the marooned Alexander Selkirk from the Juan Fernandez Islands, providing novelist Daniel Defoe with the theme of Robinson Crusoe. See robin- son crusoe. |
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