| 单词 |
piqûre |
| 释义 |
‖ piqûre|pikyr|
Also piqure.
[Fr., = injection, f. piquer (see pique v.1) to pierce (the skin), to give an injection.]
A hypodermic injection; the puncture made in the skin by such an injection.
1925Infanta Eulalia of Spain Courts & Countries after War vii. 150 The newest ‘Piqures’ come from Germany. 1936C. Connolly Rock Pool iii. 59 She had large flabby arms covered with piqures. 1940N. Mitford Pigeon Pie xiii. 211 ‘Miss Wordsworth received last night in an omnibus a piqure that will incapacitate her for a week at least.’ ‘I see, you are white slavers as well as everything else.’ 1942‘A. Bridge’ Frontier Passage ii. 21 The doctor came... And she gave her a piqure, and they sent medicines. 1962K. A. Porter Ship of Fools ii. 216 You must give me a piqûre, a huge one that will make me sleep for days. 1962V. Sackville-West Let. 26 Apr. in H. Nicolson Diaries & Lett. (1968) 411, I must have five injections... Later. It is now over, and it was no more painful than all those piqûres I had on the Antilles. |
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