英语词汇intoxicated的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

intoxicated. There are more synonyms for intoxicated in Webster’s Collegiate Thesaurus than for any other entry in the book, 46 of them in all. Intoxicate, ironically enough, comes from a Greek word meaning poison—toxikon, the poison into which war arrows were dipped. Then in the Middle Ages, the Latin toxicum became a general term for any poison. This resulted in the English toxic, “poisonous,” our intoxicate, mean- ing “to poison,” becoming limited to the temporarily “poisonous” effects of too much liquor. Which is something to remember the next time someone quips, “Name your own poison.”

词汇	intoxicated
词源	intoxicated. There are more synonyms for intoxicated in Webster’s Collegiate Thesaurus than for any other entry in the book, 46 of them in all. Intoxicate, ironically enough, comes from a Greek word meaning poison—toxikon, the poison into which war arrows were dipped. Then in the Middle Ages, the Latin toxicum became a general term for any poison. This resulted in the English toxic, “poisonous,” our intoxicate, mean- ing “to poison,” becoming limited to the temporarily “poisonous” effects of too much liquor. Which is something to remember the next time someone quips, “Name your own poison.”
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