| 单词 | cigarette |
| 释义 | cigarette (once / 306 pages) n A small tube of paper that's filled with tobacco and lit with a match is a cigarette. Because cigarettes take a terrible toll on smokers' health, the number of people who smoke them has declined recently. Most cigarettes come in packages, each cigarette a perfect slim cylinder topped with a filter. When a cigarette is smoked all the way to this filter, it becomes a "butt." The main chemical in cigarettes is called nicotine, and it's extremely addictive — other additives in cigarettes can cause various cancers and lung diseases. Because of these dangers, cigarettes are regulated and highly taxed. The word itself comes from the French, meaning "little cigar." WORD FAMILYcigarette: cigarettes USAGE EXAMPLESThe man in front of me lights up a cigarette. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) She devoted herself to her job at the Brinkmann cigarette factory. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The government approved the use of plain packaging on cigarette cartons - which removes messages, colours and brand images - in May. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) n finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking Syn|Hypo|Hyper butt, cigaret, coffin nail, fag cubeb, cubeb cigarette a cigarette containing cubeb filter-tipped cigarettea cigarette with a filter tip roll of tobacco, smoke tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder |
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