caoutchouc

读音

• /ˈkaʊt͡ʃʊk/
• /ˈkaʊt͡ʃuk/

释义

1. 樹膠，生橡膠

   obsolete

   Many a passer-by thought Miss Arundel was listening to some subject of most touching interest: his Lordship was only detailing the benefit he derived one wet day from his caoutchouc cloak.

   許多路人以為阿倫德爾小姐在聽什麼極其動人的話題：閣下只是在詳細講述他某個雨天從他的生橡膠斗篷中得到的好處。

   1831，L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon]，第XXIII章，收錄於Romance and Reality. […]，第I卷，London：Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […]，→OCLC，299頁：

   The Automaton can plainly, at the will of the casual spectator, speak any sentence or words, in any language, sing, whisper, laugh, &c.; the organs of articulation are formed of caoutchouc—exactly resembling those appertaing(sic) to humanity....

   這個自動機顯然可以按照偶然路過的觀眾的意願，用任何語言說出任何句子或單詞，可以唱歌、耳語、大笑等；發音器官由生橡膠製成——與人類的器官完全相似……

   1846，editorial staff，「The Speaking Automation」，收錄於Scientific American，「series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 98」：

   Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .

   樹脂、瀝青、封蠟、生橡膠、硫磺、古塔波膠，以及通常被稱為樹脂狀的所有物體，加上許多其他物體，在摩擦後都會獲得吸引輕小物體的能力，因此根據已被接受的術語定義，可以稱它們處於帶電或起電狀態。

   1855，William Somerville Orr，Orr's Circle of the Sciences，205頁：