ephedra
ephedra ['ɛfədrɚ]
n. [植] 麻黄属植物
名词复数:ephedras
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- n. [植] 麻黄属植物
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1. The herb Ma Huang (ephedra) is traditionally used in China to treat short-term respiratory congestion.
麻黄在中国传统上用于治疗短期的呼吸不畅。
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2. The weight-loss busts are plenty: Meridia (heart attacks, strokes), Fen-phen (heart risk), Rimonabant (suicidal thoughts), ephedra (heart attacks, strokes).
失败的例子比比皆是：诺美婷（心脏病、中风），芬-芬（心脏危险），利莫那班（自杀倾向），麻黄（心脏病、中风）。
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3. And while each new generation of skinny pills has so far proven more dangerous than effective—remember fen-phen and ephedra?—experts continue their search for a safe diet pill that works.
尽管至今为止，每一代减肥药都被证明其危险性比其效果大——还记得芬—芬和麻黄吗——但专家们还在继续研制“有效的”安全的减肥药。
- ephedra (n.) genus of low, branchy desert shrubs, 1914, from Modern Latin (1737) from Greek ephedra, a name given by Pliny to the horsetail, literally "sitting upon," from fem. of ephedros "sitting or seated upon; sitting at or near," from epi "on" (see epi-) + hedra "seat, base, chair; face of a geometric solid," from PIE root *sed- (1) "to sit." The reason for the name is not known.
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