drink: [OE] Drink comes ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic verb *drengkan, which is widely represented in other modern Germanic languages: German trinken, for instance, Dutch drinken, Swedish dricka, and Danish drikke. Variants of it also produced English drench and drown. Its pre-Germanic history is not clear, however: some have suggested that the original underlying notion contained in it is of ‘sucking liquid in or up’, and that it is thus related to English draw (a parallel semantic connection has been perceived between Latin dūcere ‘lead, draw’ and the related tsuk- ‘drink’ in Tocharian A, an extinct Indo-European language of central Asia). => drench, drown
drink (v.)
Old English drincan "to drink," also "to swallow up, engulf" (class III strong verb; past tense dranc, past participle druncen), from Proto-Germanic *drenkan (cognates: Old Saxon drinkan, Old Frisian drinka, Dutch drinken, Old High German trinkan, German trinken, Old Norse drekka, Gothic drigkan "to drink"), which is of uncertain origin or connections, perhaps from a root meaning "to draw."
Most Indo-European words for this trace to PIE *po(i)- (source of Greek pino, Latin biber, Irish ibim, Old Church Slavonic piti, Russian pit'; see imbibe).
The noun meaning "beverage, alcoholic beverage" was in late Old English.
The noun, AS. drinc, would normally have given southern drinch (cf. drench), but has been influenced by the verb. [Weekley]
To drink like a fish is first recorded 1747.
中文解释
drink.........准渴......准备渴了喝的东西......喝，饮
实用例句
1. They drink bitter on draught in the local bar.
他们在当地的酒吧里喝桶装的苦啤酒。
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2. She lifted the last of her drink to her lips.
她将最后一点饮料送到唇边。
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3. She could ring for food and drink, laundry and sundry services.
她可以打电话点餐，叫人来取要洗的衣服以及叫其他各种服务。
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4. Some of them couldn't eat a thing. One couldn't even drink.
他们中的一些人无法进食,其中一个甚至连水都喝不了.
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5. The subject came up during a pre-dinner drink with our guests.
