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opiate n.鸦片剂；麻醉剂adj.安眠的；麻醉的 (1) 只要不过于沉醉于其中，音乐是一种美丽的麻醉剂。 Karl Marx famously said that religion was the opiate of the masses, which means he thought that it was religion that prevented working-class people from rising up against their leaders. Today, you might say that television has replaced religion as a mass opiate, but you'd need to say that during a commercial for anyone to pay much attention.

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英 ['əʊpiət] 美 ['oʊpiət] (1) Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. An opiate is a drug such as morphine or heroin that is derived from opium. Used figuratively, it means something that calms or soothes. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]（用于镇痛或安眠的）鸦片制剂 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.有一位妇女剧痛难忍，不得不服用鸦片制剂来镇痛。2[N-COUNT 可数名词]（使人忽视重要事情的）麻醉品，慰藉物 If you call something an opiate, you disapprove of it because it makes people think less or spend less time on important activities.   [disapproval]...the opiate of mass entertainment...起到麻痹作用的大众娱乐It was Karl Marx who said, 'Religion is the opiate of the people'.卡尔·马克思曾说，“宗教是人民的精神鸦片。”

英语单词	opiate
英美音标	英 ['əʊpiət] 美 ['oʊpiət]
中文释义	n.鸦片剂；麻醉剂 adj.安眠的；麻醉的
英语例句	(1) Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
中文例句	(1) 只要不过于沉醉于其中，音乐是一种美丽的麻醉剂。
vocabulary简明	An opiate is a drug such as morphine or heroin that is derived from opium. Used figuratively, it means something that calms or soothes.
vocabulary扩展	Karl Marx famously said that religion was the opiate of the masses, which means he thought that it was religion that prevented working-class people from rising up against their leaders. Today, you might say that television has replaced religion as a mass opiate, but you'd need to say that during a commercial for anyone to pay much attention.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（用于镇痛或安眠的）鸦片制剂 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. 有一位妇女剧痛难忍，不得不服用鸦片制剂来镇痛。 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（使人忽视重要事情的）麻醉品，慰藉物 If you call something an opiate, you disapprove of it because it makes people think less or spend less time on important activities. [disapproval] ...the opiate of mass entertainment... 起到麻痹作用的大众娱乐 It was Karl Marx who said, 'Religion is the opiate of the people'. 卡尔·马克思曾说，“宗教是人民的精神鸦片。”

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