pill
柯林斯词典
1. N-COUNT Pills are small solid round masses of medicine or vitamins that you swallow without chewing. 药丸
Why do I have to take all these pills?
我为什么非得全部吃了这些药丸?
2. N-SING If a woman is on the pill, she takes a special pill that prevents her from becoming pregnant. 避孕药
She had been on the pill for three years. 她曾服了3年的避孕药。
3. V to give pills to 开药给
4. V
5. V to peel or skin (something) 剥(或削)皮[archaic, DIALECT]
6. PHRASE If a person or group has to accept a failure or an unpleasant piece of news, you can say that it was a bitter pill or a bitter pill to swallow. 苦果
You're too old to be given a job. That's a bitter pill to swallow. 你年龄太大,不能给你工作了。那样的事情是吞苦果。
7. PHRASE If someone does something to sweeten the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable. 让坏消息或措施变得容易接受
A few words of praise help to sweeten the pill of criticism. 几句赞赏的话有助于使批评更容易被接受。
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pill /pɪl/ (pills)
剑桥词典
- The new pill will be used alongside existing medicines .
- These pills I've been taking have done nothing for me.
- The doctor prescribed some pills.
- Dad's always forgetting to take his pills.
- When he was 17 he took an overdose of sleeping pills and nearly died .
pill noun [C] (MEDICINE)
a small solid piece of medicine that a person swallows without chewing (= crushing with the teeth )药丸;药片
a sleeping pill 安眠药
a vitamin pill 维生素片
My mother takes three or four pills a day . 我妈妈每天吃3至4粒药。
Jamie's always had trouble swallowing pills. 杰米吞药时总是很费劲。
the pill
a type of pill for women that is taken every day in order to prevent them from becoming pregnant
(女性的)口服避孕药
Are you on the pill? 你在服避孕药吗?
例句
pill noun [C] (PERSON)
USan annoying person
令人讨厌的人
Jennifer was being such a pill today. 珍妮弗今天真烦人。
pill noun [C] (ON CLOTHING)
US (UK bobble)a small ball of threads that develops on the surface of clothes or material
(衣服或布料上的)球粒,纤维绒球
She sat there sulking and picking the pills off her sweater . 她坐在那里生闷气,一个劲地拽着毛衣上的绒球。