soporific
英 [,s?p?'r?f?k]
美[,sɑp?'r?f?k]
- n. 催眠劑；安眠藥
- adj. 催眠的；想睡的
GRE暢通詞匯
中文詞源
soporific 催眠的
sopor,睡覺，昏睡，-fic,做，使，詞源同 fact,efficient.引申詞義催眠的。
英文詞源
- soporific (adj.)
- "tending to produce sleep," 1680s, from French soporifique (17c.), formed in French from Latin sopor (genitive soporis) "deep sleep" (see sopor). As a noun from 1722. Earlier as an adjective was soporiferous (1580s as "characterized by excessive sleep," c. 1600 as "soporific").
雙語例句
- 1. the soporific effect of the sun
- 太陽讓人昏昏欲睡的作用
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 2. I dozed off during the soporific music.
- 我聽到這催人入睡的音樂,便不知不覺打起盹兒來了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. The warmth of the room and the monotony of the speaker's voice grew soporific.
- 房間里的熱氣和發(fā)言人單調(diào)的聲音讓人昏昏欲睡。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. After trudging for some distance, his slow steady steps acted as a soporific.
- 及至走出來一些路,腳步是那么平勻, 緩慢,他漸漸的仿佛困倦起來.
來自漢英文學(xué) - 駱駝祥子
- 5. I often have to take soporific before I go to bed.
- 我常在睡前不得不服安眠藥.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)