opiate
n. 鸦片制剂(通常用于镇痛或催眠); 缓和,减轻
An opiate is a drug that contains opium. Opiates are used to reduce pain or to help people to sleep.
One woman suffered such severe pain she had to take opiates to control it.
有一位妇女剧痛难忍,不得不服用鸦片制剂来镇痛。
If you call something an opiate, you disapprove of it because it makes people think less or spend less time on important activities.
...the opiate of mass entertainment...
起到麻痹作用的大众娱乐
It was Karl Marx who said, 'Religion is the opiate of the people'.
卡尔·马克思曾说,“宗教是人民的精神鸦片。”
1. a narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative
He cannot sleep, not even after taking an opiate.
他睡不着,甚至服了安眠药之后也睡不着.
Methods: The related papers were consulted and the neurochemical mechanisms of opiate reinforcement were reviewed.
方法在查阅和总结28篇国内外相关文献的基础上,着重论述了与阿片强化作用密切相关的神经递质系统及其相互关系.
Objective : To understand the prevalent rates of opiate abuse at six areas in Hunan Province.
目的: 了解湖南省普通人群阿片类物质的使用现状.
Work no longer could be an opiate anesthetizing him against his feelings and convictions.
他再也不用把工作当成麻醉自己情感与意愿的鸦片了.
Religion isn't the opiate of the masses, fashion is.
信仰不是大众的麻醉剂, 但流行时尚是.