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单词 placebo
释义
placebo
noun[C]
uk
/pləˈsiː.bəʊ/us
/pləˈsiː.boʊ/
pluralplacebos
asubstancegiven to someone who is told that it is aparticularmedicine, either to make thatpersonfeelas if they are gettingbetteror tocomparetheeffectof theparticularmedicinewhen given toothers:
安慰剂
She was only given a placebo, but sheclaimedshe gotbetter- that's the placeboeffect.只给她服用了安慰剂，但她说好一些了——这就是安慰剂的心理作用。
something that is given totrytosatisfyapersonwho has not been given the thing they reallywant:
使人宽慰的事；安抚话
Thesesmallconcessionshave been made as a placebo tostoptheworkersmakingfurtherdemands.这些小让步就像安慰剂一样，可以避免工人们提出更多的要求。
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(Definition ofplacebofrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

placebo| American Dictionary

placebo
noun[C]
us
/pləˈsi·boʊ/
pluralplacebos
asubstancethat is notmedicine, but that is given to someone who is told that it is amedicine, used totesttheeffectof adrugor topleaseapatient
(Definition ofplacebofrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofplacebo

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Update on unethical use of placebos in randomised trials.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Doctors have a succinct phrase for relatively harmless medicine—placebos.
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None of those placebos has reduced unemployment, but they have successfully held wages down.
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The profession will not again put off with placebos.
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Although these do not amount to an economic strategy, they are placebos which are of some benefit.
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I am not sure whether the people of today, particularly the young, would be likely to accept placebos such as that.
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He believes that a proportion of patients should be given placebos and that some of them will get well.
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There are few reports to suggest that it achieves markedly better results than placebos.
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A review of the evidence revealed that in 21 trials acupuncture was no better than placebos in securing long-term abstinence from smoking.
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Perhaps they were all placebos.
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Double blind study of imipramine andplacebofor incontinence due to bladder instability.
From theCambridge English Corpus
One of the drinks was nutritionally balanced and contained tryptophan (placebo), the other was identical but contained no tryptophan.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Randomized double-blind,placebo-controlled trial of high-flow inhaled oxygen in acute cluster headache.
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Efficacy of pregabalin in neuropathic pain evaluated in a 12-week, randomised, double-blind, multicentre,placebo-controlled trial of flexible- and fixed-dose regimens.
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In the flexible-dosage study in patients with spinal cord injury pain, 22% of pregabalin and 8% ofplacebo-treated patients were responders.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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