codeine

IPA/ˈkəʊdiːn/
IPA/ˈkəʊdiːn/

codeine — 名詞

1. a mild pain-killing drug made from the opium poppy, often added to cough medicin

1.名詞C1
釋義

可待因

由鴉片提煉的溫和止痛藥

a mild pain-killing drug made from the opium poppy, often added to cough medicine and used to dull moderate pain.

例句

The dentist prescribed codeine for Beatrix after she had her wisdom tooth removed.

Beatrix 拔掉智齒之後，牙醫開了可待因給她止痛。

collocation: prescribe codeine for [person/condition]

Many over-the-counter cough syrups in the United States no longer contain codeine.

美國許多市售的咳嗽糖漿如今已不再含有可待因。

collocation: contain codeine (in a product)

同義詞
  • opioid painkiller

    broader category — codeine is one type of opioid painkiller, weaker than morphine

  • analgesic

    general medical term for any pain-reliever, not specific to opioids

文法句型

codeine for [condition]

prescribed codeine

codeine in [product]

用法筆記

Uncountable; never pluralised (no '*codeines'). Often appears with measure words in English: 'a dose of codeine', 'tablets of codeine', 'codeine syrup'.

常見錯誤

❌The nurse gave me two codeines.
✅The nurse gave me two codeine tablets.
💡codeine is uncountable; count the tablets, not the drug.
❌I drank a codeine before bed.
✅I took some codeine syrup before bed.
💡you take codeine, you don't drink it as a unit.