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aspirin

noun
🔊/ˈæsprɪn/, 🔊/ˈæspərɪn/
🔊/ˈæsprɪn/, 🔊/ˈæspərɪn/
 [uncountable, countable]
(plural aspirin, aspirins)
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  1. a drug used to reduce pain, high temperature and inflammation阿司匹林（镇痛解热消炎药）
    • Do you have any aspirin?你有阿司匹林吗？🔊🔊
    • Take two aspirin(s) for a headache.头痛服两片阿司匹林。
    Extra Examples
    • Never give aspirin to a child under twelve.千万不要给 12 岁以下的儿童服用阿司匹林。
    • She took an aspirin and went to bed.她服了一片阿司匹林就上床睡觉了。
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    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • soluble
    • low-dose
    • baby
    • …
    … of aspirin
    • dose
    verb + aspirin
    • take
    • give somebody
    • dissolve
    • …
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    Word Originlate 19th cent.: from German, from acetylierte Spirsäure ‘acetylated salicylic acid’ (the element Spir- being from the plant genus name Spiraea).