pill
柯林斯词典
1. N-COUNT Pills are small solid round masses of medicine or vitamins that you swallow without chewing. 葯丸
Why do I have to take all these pills?
我爲什麽非得全部喫了這些葯丸?
2. N-SING If a woman is on the pill, she takes a special pill that prevents her from becoming pregnant. 避孕葯
She had been on the pill for three years. 她曾服了3年的避孕葯。
3. V to give pills to 開葯給
4. V
5. V to peel or skin (something) 剝(或削)皮[archaic, DIALECT]
6. PHRASE If a person or group has to accept a failure or an unpleasant piece of news, you can say that it was a bitter pill or a bitter pill to swallow. 苦果
You're too old to be given a job. That's a bitter pill to swallow. 你年齡太大,不能給你工作了。那樣的事情是吞苦果。
7. PHRASE If someone does something to sweeten the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable. 讓壞消息或措施變得容易接受
A few words of praise help to sweeten the pill of criticism. 幾句贊賞的話有助於使批評更容易被接受。
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pill /pɪl/ (pills)
剑桥词典
- The new pill will be used alongside existing medicines .
- These pills I've been taking have done nothing for me.
- The doctor prescribed some pills.
- Dad's always forgetting to take his pills.
- When he was 17 he took an overdose of sleeping pills and nearly died .
pill noun [C] (MEDICINE)
a small solid piece of medicine that a person swallows without chewing (= crushing with the teeth )葯丸;葯片
a sleeping pill 安眠葯
a vitamin pill 維生素片
My mother takes three or four pills a day . 我媽媽每天喫3至4粒葯。
Jamie's always had trouble swallowing pills. 傑米吞葯時縂是很費勁。
the pill
a type of pill for women that is taken every day in order to prevent them from becoming pregnant
(女性的)口服避孕葯
Are you on the pill? 你在服避孕葯嗎?
例句
pill noun [C] (PERSON)
USan annoying person
令人討厭的人
Jennifer was being such a pill today. 珍妮弗今天真煩人。
pill noun [C] (ON CLOTHING)
US (UK bobble)a small ball of threads that develops on the surface of clothes or material
(衣服或佈料上的)球粒,纖維羢球
She sat there sulking and picking the pills off her sweater . 她坐在那裡生悶氣,一個勁地拽著毛衣上的羢球。