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Related topics: Drug culture, Drugs, medicines

drug1 /drʌɡ/ S2 W1 noun [countableC]

1 MDDan illegal substance such as marijuana or cocaine, which some people take in order to feel happy, relaxed, or excited 毒品

A lot of young people start taking drugs at school.

許多年輕人上學時開始吸毒。

She always looks as though she’s on drugs (=taking drugs).

她總是看上去一副吸過毒的樣子。

Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose.

吉米·亨德裏克斯死於吸毒過量。

2 MDa medicine, or a substance for making medicines 藥物，藥材

a drug used in the treatment of cancer

用於治療癌症的一種藥物

drug for

new drugs for AIDS-related conditions

治療艾滋病相關病症的新藥

Drugs prescribed (=ordered for people) by doctors can be extremely hazardous if used in the wrong way.

醫生開的處方藥如果使用不當是非常危險的。

The big drug companies make huge profits.

大型制藥公司利潤豐厚。

3 a substance that people doing a sport sometimes take illegally to improve their performance 運動禁藥

She was banned from the Olympics after failing a drug test (=a test that shows if you have taken drugs).

她藥檢未能過關，被禁止參加奧運會。

performance-enhancing drugs 提高成績的藥物

4. [usually singular] a substance such as tobacco, coffee, or alcohol, that makes you want more and more of it 成瘾性物質〔如煙草、咖啡、酒〕

5 be (like) a drug if an activity is like a drug, you enjoy it so much that you want to do it more and more 〔某項活動〕使人上瘾，讓人欲罷不能

Athletics is like a drug – it keeps dragging you back for more.

體育運動會讓人上瘾，會不斷地使你想練了又練。

Examples from the Corpus

be (like) a drug• Of those held in federal rather than state prisons, 60 % are drug offenders with no history of violence.• Casodex is a drug that blocks the release of testosterone, a hormone that is linked to prostate cancer.• The robber bridegroom could be a drug pusher in-stead of a homicidal cannibal, for instance.• At 17 he was a drug addict.• The most worrisome cross-border export, however, is drugs.• I would have loved a drink, but I thought it might be drugged.• The more complete descriptive term is drug elimination half-life.• Tobacco is a drug and addicts should be given a chance to ease off gradually.

→ miracle drug at miracle(3)

COLLOCATIONS

verbs

take/use drugs 吸毒

I think I took drugs to escape my problems.

我想我吸毒是爲了逃避問題。

do drugs informal (=take drugs) 吸毒

All my friends were doing drugs.

我的朋友都在吸毒。

be on drugs (=take drugs regularly) 經常吸毒

It can be very hard to tell if your teenager is on drugs.

有時很難斷定自己處於青春期的孩子是否吸毒。

be addicted to drugs/dependent on drugs (=be unable to stop taking drugs) 吸毒成瘾

People who are addicted to drugs need help.

吸毒成瘾的人需要幫助。

be/get hooked on drugs informal (=be/get addicted) 吸毒上瘾

nShe got hooked on drugs, and ended up homeless.

experiment with drugs (=try taking drugs) 嘗試吸毒

nShe admitted that she had experimented with drugs.

come off/get off drugs (=stop taking drugs permanently) 戒毒

nIt was years before I was able to come off drugs.

deal (in) drugs (also supply drugs formal) (=sell drugs) 販毒

nHe’s in jail for dealing drugs.

inject drugs (=use a needle to put drugs into your body) 注射毒品

nPeople who share equipment for injecting drugs are at risk of contracting HIV.

be high on drugs (=be experiencing the effects of a drug) 吸毒後極度興奮的

nHe committed the crime while he was high on drugs.

drug + NOUN

drug use/abuse (=taking drugs) 吸毒

She is being treated for drug abuse.

她因吸毒而正在接受治療。

a drug user (=someone who takes drugs) 吸毒者,瘾君子

We set up a counselling service for drug users.

我們爲吸毒者提供咨詢服務。

drug addiction (=the problem of not being able to stop taking drugs) 毒瘾

his struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction

他與酗酒和毒瘾的鬥爭

a drug addict (=someone who cannot stop taking drugs) 吸毒成瘾的人

nAt 20 Steve was a drug addict, unemployed and lonely.

a drug problem (=the problem of being addicted to drugs) 吸毒問題

nHis daughter has a drug problem.

a drug overdose (=taking too much of a drug at one time) 吸毒過量

nShe died from a drug overdose.

a drug dealer/pusher (=someone who sells drugs) 毒販

nThe city's streets are full of drug dealers.

a drug trafficker/smuggler (=someone involved in bringing drugs into a country) 毒品走私販

nUS efforts against drug traffickers

drug trafficking/smuggling (=the crime of bringing drugs into a country) 毒品走私

nThe maximum penalty for drug smuggling was 25 years in jail.

nthe drug trade

the international drug trade

the war on drugs (=a long struggle by the authorities to control drugs) 禁毒戰

nThe war on drugs continues.

na drug charge (=a legal accusation that someone is guilty of having or selling drugs)

He’s awaiting trial on a drug charge.

na drug offence (=a crime related to having or selling drugs)

Luciani is serving 20 years for drug offences.

adjectives

illegal drugs 毒品

A lot of crime is connected to illegal drugs.

許多犯罪都和毒品有關。

hard drugs (also class A drugs British EnglishBrE) (=strong drugs such as heroin, cocaine etc) 硬毒品

nHe was in prison for dealing hard drugs.

soft drugs (=less strong drugs such as marijuana) 軟毒品

nSoft drugs are legal in some countries.

recreational drugs (=taken for pleasure) 消遣性毒品

nEcstasy was first used in Britain as a recreational drug in the 1980s.

designer drugs (=produced artificially from chemicals) 人造毒品

nDesigner drugs are highly addictive and can have unpredictable side effects.

COMMON ERRORSDon’t say ‘light drugs’. Say soft drugs.

不要說 ‘light drugs’. 而要說 soft drugs.

Instead of ‘heavy drugs’, you usually say hard drugs.

人們不說 ‘heavy drugs’,一般說 hard drugs.

Examples from the Corpus

drug• D.W. had come in over ocean and flown low as a drug smuggler over what might as well be called treetops.• She has been treated for alcohol and drug abuse.• Alcohol and drug misusers may fear approaching statutory agencies for help, especially if they are parents.• Dewey said that legalizing marijuana would encourage people to experiment with hard drugs such as cocaine or heroin.• The agency's efforts to reduce the flow of illegal drugs into the United States has largely failed.• Conclusions - Seroconversion to HIV-1 among intravenous drug misusers is associated with bacterial pneumonia.• The New Jersey drug maker will begin marketing its new anti-balding medication in April.• Back then, because of drugs, I lost everything I had.• In facing the challenge of drug abuse, the media have never been less monolithic.• a new campaign to warn teens about the danger of drugs• The organization tries to deal with the widespread problems of drug addiction and alcoholism.• Morphine is a very powerful drug.• The article says that Ware tried to commit suicide by combining prescription drugs and alcohol.• Despite being a rich drug dealer, he never misses a class.• Thompson was arrested for selling drugs in the fall of 1992.• Four teenagers were arrested for selling drugs.• Seven out of ten teenagers said they had tried soft drugs.• One of the early ones was dinitrophenol, the first synthetic drug used for weight reduction.• A lot of work will have to be done before human beings start taking drugs in dissolving glass.• One disadvantage of the drug is that it is very expensive.• Many researchers think that the drug may help prevent prostate cancer.• The drugs I take for hay fever make me feel very drowsy.

on drugs• Look for signs that your child may be on drugs.• Controls on drugs have traditionally been very strict; but regulations governing foods and their additives are extremely liberal.• The other pattern is that the child has psychiatric or psychological problems or is dependent on drugs or alcohol.• They need to focus the national policy on drugs, on stopping it at the source.• This is one example of a task related to an extract from off-air documentary material within a unit on drugs.• This Marine and his unit were on duty on a peaceful border as part of the War on Drugs.• Finally, a reason to vote for Bob Dole: He will call off the war on drugs.• Police believe many of the ravers were on drugs.

drug companies• He also called for the establishment of partnerships between governments and drug companies to conduct research.• The multinational drug companies are often exploiting that knowledge in their constant search for new and more profitable drugs.• This has turned drug regulators into unwitting protectors of drug companies.• About the profits that drug companies make from this advertising.• Behind the drug companies' interest in pet medicines is a world-wide market currently estimated at more than $ 1 billion.• Fears On the other hand what is holding the Index back is the drug companies.• And what of the drug companies?• Several members of the two committees have links with drug companies manufacturing meningitis vaccines.

performance-enhancing drugs• Seven of the 12 winners tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

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