opiate
n. 鴉片製劑(通常用於鎮痛或催眠); 緩和,減輕
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.
有一位婦女劇痛難忍,不得不服用鴉片製劑來鎮痛。
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...
起到麻痺作用的大眾娛樂
It was Karl Marx who said, 'Religion is the opiate of the people'.
卡爾·馬克思曾說,“宗教是人民的精神鴉片。”
1. a narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative
He cannot sleep, not even after taking an opiate.
他睡不著,甚至服了安眠藥之後也睡不著.
Methods: The related papers were consulted and the neurochemical mechanisms of opiate reinforcement were reviewed.
方法在查閱和總結28篇國內外相關文獻的基礎上,著重論述了與阿片強化作用密切相關的神經遞質系統及其相互關係.
Objective : To understand the prevalent rates of opiate abuse at six areas in Hunan Province.
目的: 瞭解湖南省普通人群阿片類物質的使用現狀.
Work no longer could be an opiate anesthetizing him against his feelings and convictions.
他再也不用把工作當成麻醉自己情感與意願的鴉片了.
Religion isn't the opiate of the masses, fashion is.
信仰不是大眾的麻醉劑, 但流行時尚是.