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| Processed by: | richwarm (2021-03-25 05:51:13 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 67761 - submitted by 'samsara' >> 吸食，汉语词语，读音xī shí，意思是把气体或液体吸进嘴里(如食物、毒品等) -------------------------------- Editor: 1) This suggestion should be submitted as two lines ~ - 吸食 吸食 [xi1 shi2] /to suck/to take in/ + 吸食 吸食 [xi1 shi2] /to suck/to take in/to consume (illegal drugs)/ (You can do this by following the procedure I outlined in my email to you.) 2) "to suck; to take in" is a legacy definition copied and recopied from an old dictionary: "A Chinese-English Dictionary" (1978). It's not particularly good -- too broad a definition. Jet engines and vacuum cleaners "suck" and "take things in", but they don't 吸食. So I'm going to try to rewrite the definition from scratch. 3) In many instances, it's a creature (typically an insect) that does this (吸食). 4) I don't think it's necessarily *illegal* drugs. I found 吸食 usage where it was methadone, for example, and I imagine it could also apply when it's abuse of legal painkillers, or drug use in a traditional tribal setting. |
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# 吸食 吸食 [xi1 shi2] /to suck/to take in/to consume (illegal drugs)/ # - 吸食 吸食 [xi1 shi2] /to suck/to take in/ + 吸食 吸食 [xi1 shi2] /(of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc)/(of a person) to take (a narcotic drug)/to drink through a straw/ |