Opiate
['əʊpɪət] or ['opɪət]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium.
(n.) Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic.
(n.) Anything which induces rest or inaction; that which quiets uneasiness.
(a.) Inducing sleep; somniferous; narcotic; hence, anodyne; causing rest, dullness, or inaction; as, the opiate rod of Hermes.
(v. t.) To subject to the influence of an opiate; to put to sleep.
編輯:瑞伊
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Anodyne, narcotic, sedative.
丹整理
解釋/意思:
n. a drug containing opium to induce sleep: that which dulls sensation physical or mental.—adj. inducing sleep.—adj. O′piated.
編輯:沃尔夫冈
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
校對:卢埃林
例句/造句/用法:
- It was six o'clock in the morning before the strong opiate which Dr. Bain had prescribed for me produced any effect. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- And what opiate for his severe sufferings--what object for his strong passions--had he sought there? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Mr. Farebrother's suspicion as to the opiate was true, however. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Occupation alone, if I could deliver myself up to it, would be capable of affording an opiate to my sleepless sense of woe. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Entertain this belief, he cried, hug it to your heart--make it a pillow to your head, an opiate for your eyes --I am content. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The belief in such compensation is a great opiate for present miseries. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I resolved to visit London, to see him; to quiet these agonizing throes by the sweet medicine of hope, or the opiate of despair. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He may have been taking an opiate, was a thought that crossed Mr. Farebrother's mind--tic-douloureux perhaps--or medical worries. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- In fact, they had given me a strong opiate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The stimulant changed into an opiate. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He is enjoined to silence and to rest, and they have given him some opiate to lull his pain, for his old enemy is very hard with him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I left her, and soon heard that she slept soundly under the influence of the opiate I had administered. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
編輯:苏珊娜