aspirin
aspirin — noun
1. a small white tablet, sold without a prescription, that people swallow to ease a
a small white tablet, sold without a prescription, that people swallow to ease aches like headaches, bring down a high temperature, and calm the redness or soreness caused by an injury.
Rohan swallowed two aspirin with a glass of water to stop his headache.
take + number + aspirin for treating a headache
The nurse gave Mr. Chen an aspirin when his fever climbed above 39 degrees.
an aspirin (countable: one tablet) for fever
Doctors often tell heart patients to take a small dose of aspirin every morning.
After the football match, Daniel rubbed his sore knee and reached for the aspirin.
Grandpa Wei keeps aspirin in the kitchen drawer to ease his back pain after gardening.
- painkiller
general term covering aspirin, ibuprofen, paracetamol, etc.
- ibuprofen
a different drug with similar uses; not interchangeable in technical writing
- analgesic
formal medical term for any pain-relieving drug
文法句型
take + aspirin
an aspirin (single tablet)
用法筆記
Both countable and uncountable. Use 'an aspirin' or 'two aspirin(s)' when counting tablets; use 'aspirin' with no article when talking about the medicine in general (e.g. 'aspirin reduces fever').