soporific
soporific 英 [ˌsɒpəˈrɪfɪk] 美 [ˌsɑpəˈrɪfɪk]
n. 催眠剂；安眠药 adj. 催眠的；想睡的
名词复数:soporifics
- Something that is soporific is sleep-inducing. Certain medicines, but also extreme coziness, can have a soporific effect.
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- n. 催眠剂；安眠药
- adj. 催眠的；想睡的
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1. But there have always been what she calls “candy alarmists, ” who warned that candy was too stimulating, too soporific, poisoned, or otherwise hazardous.
但世上从不缺少她所谓的“糖果杞人忧天者”，他们警告大家糖果容易令人亢奋、有催眠作用、有毒，总之危害重重。
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2. Those who insisted on worshiping at the altar of soporific right thinking—those who thought that conflict had become obsolete—were swept away in less than 20 years.
那些坚持在催眠般权利思想的祭坛边祈祷的人，那些认为冲突已经成为过去的人——在不到20年的时间里被一扫而光。
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3. In Lavengro (or is it Romany Rye?) there is an impossible character, a victim of insomnia, who finds that a volume of Wordsworth's poems is the only sure soporific; but that was Borrow s malice.
在《拉文格罗》（或者是《吉卜赛男人》）一书中有一个无可救药的人，患有失眠症，他发现华尔华斯的一卷诗集是惟一有效的催眠剂，但那只不过是伯罗的恶作剧而已。
- soporific (adj.) "tending to produce sleep," 1680s, from French soporifique (17c.), formed in French from Latin sopor (genitive soporis) "deep sleep" (from PIE root *swep- "to sleep"). As a noun from 1722. Earlier as an adjective was soporiferous (1580s as "characterized by excessive sleep," c. 1600 as "soporific").
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