heroin

/'herәuin/

柯林斯星级

BNC频率: 5879

现代语料频率: 5859

考研英语

中文翻译

n. 海洛因, 吗啡

[化] 海洛因; 二醋吗啡; 二乙酰吗啡

英文解释

n. a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush

常见例句

a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine)

See: [Stephen Harper] Self-appointed Emperor of Canada, keeper of the mystic scrolls of heroin-addicted logic, promoter of private prisons in Canada, destroyer of nations...STARTING WITH OUR OWN! > While telling the Canadian people that he does NOT support private prisons, Emperor Harperius Mandatorius Minimus is deliberately laying down all of the groundwork to make a Canadian prison-industrial complex a reality. > Building prisons without criminals to fill them, and then creating enough statutes to criminalize enough people to make those prisons profitable...despite the cost to Canada and it's people.

the qualities of a hero or heroine

n (Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith

Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha