nostrum

单词nostrum

基本解释

n.: 并非灵验的招数；不会奏效的计策；江湖药
网络: 秘方；秘药；妙方

权威解释

• 并非灵验的招数；不会奏效的计策:

  an idea that is intended to solve a problem but that will probably not succeed

• 江湖药:

  a medicine that is not made in a scientific way, and that is not effective

英汉解释

• 厂家所谓特效药

• 药方

• 〔蔑称〕(解决政治、社会问题等的)妙策;万应灵药

• 骗人疗法;骗人特效药

• 注册成药;秘方

词性分析

• 复数：nostrums

同义词

n.remedyplanschemebig ideasolution

例句

• It would be a "nostrum" to drive your customers away by scolding employees or quarrel with your spouse in customer"s presence.

  当着顾客的面斥责店员，或夫妻吵架，是赶走顾客的“妙方”。

• There is no reason why the Baltic, as a Swedish "Mare Nostrum" , cannot become the basis of a new Northern, Protestant empire.

  没有理由波罗的海，瑞典作为一个“海诺斯特姆”，不能成为根据新的北方，新教帝国。

• It might be salutary to consider how "mare nostrum" became part of the 20th century political vocabulary.

  好好思考为什么“地中海”成为了20世纪政治词汇的一部分对你是有益的。

• India is determined to keep China"s growing navy out of the Indian Ocean, regarded by Delhi as its Mare Nostrum.

  印度已下定决心要将羽翼渐丰的中国海军挡在印度洋外，毕竟印度将之视为“印度之洋”。

• On the other side of Mare Nostrum, Europe"s sovereign debt crisis spread from riotous Greece to Portugal, and then to Italy and Spain.

  在地中海的另一边，欧洲主权债务危机从动荡的希腊蔓延到葡萄牙，再蔓延到意大利和西班牙。

• Some nostrum peddled as a cure for unemployment.

  鼓吹可解决失业问题的妙策。

• There is no simple nostrum for political and social evils.

  译对付政治和社会罪恶没有简单的妙方。

• Ever since 1945, the North Pacific has been pretty much America"s "mare nostrum. "

  1945年以来，北太平洋几乎一直是美国的“地中海”。