飲料可能

POTABLEいんりょうかのう[/ˈpoʊtəbəl/]名詞

解説

飲むのに適したもの。

水は飲料可能とされ、自然の飲み物だと主張する人もいるが、
彼らですら渇きという病気の時にしか味いとは思わない。
文明国は例外なく「水の代用品」の発明に執念を燃やしてきた。

この液体への嫌悪に人類の保存本能が関与していないと考えるのは非科学的である。

付記

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Original

Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific—and without science we are as the snakes and toads.

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