| 释义 |
disinˈtoxicate, v.
[dis- 6.]
trans. To free from intoxication; to restore to soberness. Also fig. Hence disintoxiˈcation, removal of the effects of intoxication.
1685J. Chamberlayne Coffee Tea & Choc. 40 It disintoxicates those that are fuddled. 1927Scots Observer 20 Aug. 9/5 ‘Spiritual life,’ says Mr. Santayana, ‘is not a worship of values whether found in things or hypostatised into supernatural powers. It is the exact opposite; it is disintoxication from their influence.’ 1930Advt., Natural mineral water of Contrexéville. Diuretic and for disintoxication. 1935Mind XLIV. 94 The lesson of that tragedy is acceptance of life, not through intoxication and excess, but through disintoxication, submission, conciliation, self-limitation. 1936Scrutiny IV. iv. 381 The next stanza is the only one in the poem to be completely disintoxicated and disenchanted. 1963Auden Dyer's Hand 27 In so far as poetry, or any other of the arts, can be said to have an ulterior purpose, it is, by telling the truth, to disenchant and disintoxicate. |