Sedative
['sedətɪv] or ['sɛdətɪv]
解释:
(a.) Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize
(a.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.
(n.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.
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同义词及近义词：
a. Soothing, tranquillizing, calming, emollient, assuasive, assuaging, lenient, lenitive, demulcent, balmy.
n. Opiate, anodyne, narcotic.
编辑:洛娜
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Allaying, tranquillizing, composing, soothing, demulcent, palliative,assuasive, lenient, anodyne, hypnotic
ANT:Disturbing, exciting, irritant
编辑:尼特
例句:
- The church is calm enough, I am sure; but it might be a steam-power loom in full action, for any sedative effect it has on me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Bessie now endeavoured to persuade her to take a sedative draught: she succeeded with difficulty. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The drought which Reuben administered was of a sedative and narcotic quality, and secured the patient sound and undisturbed slumbers. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- You are of an excitable temper and want a sedative. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Later, as the sedative action began to gain on the stimulant action, you would slowly become inert and stupefied. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The action of opium is comprised, in the majority of cases, in two influences--a stimulating influence first, and a sedative influence afterwards. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I am sure that, with your symptoms, my friend Dr. Watson here would prescribe a sedative. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- She shall make you comfortable: she shall give you a sedative. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Was it possible that the sedative action of the opium was making itself felt already? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The sedative influence had got him; the experiment was at an end. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
编辑:莉莉