potion
意味
- (水薬・毒薬の)一服(drink, draft)
例文
Princess, don't drink the potion.
お嬢様、薬を飲まないでください。
Drink this potion, and you'll be able to turn into whatever animal you want.
この薬を飲むと、なりたい動物になれるよ。
If I ask Santa for a magic potion that makes me good at English, will he give it to me?
サンタさんに「英語が上手になる魔法の薬」をお願いしたら、届けてくれるかな?
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English pocioun, borrowed from Old French pocion, from Latin pōtiō (“a drinking”), pōtiōnis, from pōtāre (“to drink”). Displaced native Old English drenċ whence Modern English drench. Doublet of poison.