placebo effect

英 [pləˈsiːbəʊ ɪˈfekt]

美 [pləˈsiːboʊ ɪˈfekt]

n.  (指用安慰剂治疗后病人病情好转的)安慰剂效果

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （指用安慰剂治疗后病人病情好转的）安慰剂效果
  The placebo effectis the fact that some patients' health improves after taking what they believe is an effective drug but which is in fact only a placebo.
  1. The placebo effect can be understood only if we acknowledge the unity of mind and body.
     只有我们承认身心一体，安慰剂效果才能被理解。

英英释义

noun

• any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo

双语例句

• By now we've all heard about the placebo effect: just by thinking a pill will help kill cure what else ails you, it often does.
  到如今，我们都已听说了安慰剂效应：既是通过心里想、认为某种药丸可以帮助治愈病痛，它经常起作用。
• After decades in the jungles of fringe science, the placebo effect has become the elephant in the boardroom.
  数十年来被视作边缘科学的安慰剂效应，已成为不容忽视的焦点。
• The other holds that acupuncture works through a placebo effect, in which the patient's thinking releases endorphins.
  另一观点认为，针灸只是一种安慰剂效应，给患者以内啡肽释放的想象。
• However, other researchers say the "high" listeners claim to feel may actually be a placebo effect determined by the individual's desire to feel it.
  而有些研究人员则认为，“音频毒品”之所以能够达到致幻效果，只是因为收听者主观上想要得到这样的感觉。
• The nocebo effect is the flip side of the more positive placebo effect, and she says that one of the most pernicious nocebo effects can occur when a patient is informed by her doctor that she is ill.
  反安慰剂效应是更为积极的安慰剂效应的另一面。兰格称，最糟糕的反安慰剂效应之一可能发生在患者从医生那里得知自己患病的消息时。
• Virtually all alternative medicine is bunk; but the placebo effect is rather interesting
  几乎所有的替代医学都是胡扯，但产生的安慰效果非常有趣
• Result of experiment study on the factors that affect the placebo needle effect of pain disease indicates that: the effect of placebo acupuncture of pain disease mainly depends on the stimulus intensity, and the relative position of the acupuncture site with the source of the pain.
  影响疼痛类疾病安慰针刺效应因素的实验研究结果表明，疼痛类疾病的安慰针刺效应主要取决于刺激强度，以及针刺部位与痛源的相对位置，而非取决于针刺部位是否为治疗穴位。
• If the cognitive benefits from exercise are a result of a placebo effect rather than of actual changes in the brain because of the exercise, then those benefits could be ephemeral and unable in the long term to help us remember how to spell ephemeral.
  如果运动提高认知能力的益处是安慰剂效应，而不是大脑因为运动发生了真正的改变，那么这些好处可能就会转瞬即逝，无法长期帮助我们记住转瞬即逝这种复杂词汇。
• Partially its a placebo effect.
  部分地讲，这也是一种安慰效应。
• The placebo effect, for example, demonstrates that people can at times cause a relief in medical symptoms or suffering by believing the cures to be effective& whether they actually are or not.
  比如说，安慰剂效应表明人有时候能通过相信治疗有效来减轻症状和痛苦&不论治疗是否真的有效。