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placebo n.安慰剂；安慰话 (1) 人们已发现安慰剂能在很多不同的病例中发挥作用。(2) 养老保险对我们真的重要吗？还是只是一种心理安慰？ In clinical drug-trials, to rule out what is called the placebo effect, scientists give half of the trial participants a placebo. If a government replaces food stamps with a coloring book give-away, it might be dismissed by child advocates as nothing more than a placebo. Placēbō is Latin for "I'll please (you)," in other words, I'll keep you happy, even though I'm just giving you a placebo.

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英 [plə'siːbəʊ] 美 [plə'siːboʊ] (1) The placebo has been found to work with a lot of different cases.(2) Does endowment insurance really matter to everyone? Or is it just a placebo? A patient's symptoms sometimes disappear just because they believe that they are being treated. Even when doctors give them a biologically inactive drug, otherwise known as a placebo, the patients swear they are cured. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]（用于测试新药效力的）无效对照剂；（用以安慰想象自己得病的人的）安慰剂 A placebo is a substance with no effects that a doctor gives to a patient instead of a drug. Placebos are used when testing new drugs or sometimes when a patient has imagined their illness.

英语单词	placebo
英美音标	英 [plə'siːbəʊ] 美 [plə'siːboʊ]
中文释义	n.安慰剂；安慰话
英语例句	(1) The placebo has been found to work with a lot of different cases. (2) Does endowment insurance really matter to everyone? Or is it just a placebo?
中文例句	(1) 人们已发现安慰剂能在很多不同的病例中发挥作用。 (2) 养老保险对我们真的重要吗？还是只是一种心理安慰？
vocabulary简明	A patient's symptoms sometimes disappear just because they believe that they are being treated. Even when doctors give them a biologically inactive drug, otherwise known as a placebo, the patients swear they are cured.
vocabulary扩展	In clinical drug-trials, to rule out what is called the placebo effect, scientists give half of the trial participants a placebo. If a government replaces food stamps with a coloring book give-away, it might be dismissed by child advocates as nothing more than a placebo. Placēbō is Latin for "I'll please (you)," in other words, I'll keep you happy, even though I'm just giving you a placebo.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（用于测试新药效力的）无效对照剂；（用以安慰想象自己得病的人的）安慰剂 A placebo is a substance with no effects that a doctor gives to a patient instead of a drug. Placebos are used when testing new drugs or sometimes when a patient has imagined their illness.

Placebo Give Patient 英 Plə'Siːbəʊ] 美 Plə'Siːboʊ N.安慰剂；安慰话 Found