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词汇 Brompton cocktail
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Definition of Brompton cocktail in English:

Brompton cocktail

nounˈbrɒmpt(ə)nˌbrämpt(ə)n ˈkäkˌtāl
  • A powerful painkiller and sedative consisting of vodka or other spirit laced with morphine and sometimes also cocaine.

    布郎普顿混合麻醉剂

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Over the next twenty years of writing and lecturing, Saunders did much to promote this mixture and other variants of the "Brompton Cocktail."
    • His situation degenerated to the point he was downing Brompton cocktails, a mixture of 60 percent morphine, 30 percent cocaine, and 10 percent gin, meant for terminal cancer patients.
    • Certain estimable English doctors were once in the habit of administering to terminally-ill cancer patients an elixir known as the "Brompton cocktail".

Origin

1960s: said to be from the name of Brompton Hospital, London, where the mixture was invented for cancer patients.

Definition of Brompton cocktail in US English:

Brompton cocktail

nounˌbrämpt(ə)n ˈkäkˌtāl
  • A powerful painkiller and sedative consisting of vodka or other liquor laced with morphine and sometimes also cocaine.

    布郎普顿混合麻醉剂

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His situation degenerated to the point he was downing Brompton cocktails, a mixture of 60 percent morphine, 30 percent cocaine, and 10 percent gin, meant for terminal cancer patients.
    • Certain estimable English doctors were once in the habit of administering to terminally-ill cancer patients an elixir known as the "Brompton cocktail".
    • Over the next twenty years of writing and lecturing, Saunders did much to promote this mixture and other variants of the "Brompton Cocktail."

Origin

1960s: said to be from the name of Brompton Hospital, London, where the mixture was invented for cancer patients.

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