nostrum

nostrum

美 [ˈnɑstrəm]  英 [ˈnɒstrəm]

  • 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

词形变化

复数:nostrums  

同义词

英汉双解

n.
1.
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
2.
江湖药a medicine that is not made in a scientific way, and that is not effective

英汉解释

n.
1.
〈蔑〉(解决政治,社会问题等的)妙策;万应灵药
2.
注册成药;秘方
3.
骗人疗法;骗人特效药

英英解释

n.

例句

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

当着顾客面斥责店员夫妻吵架赶走顾客妙方”。

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诺斯特姆”,不能成为根据北方新教帝国

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20世纪政治词汇一部分有益

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

印度下定决心羽翼中国海军印度毕竟印度视为印度”。

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

地中海一边欧洲主权债务危机动荡希腊蔓延葡萄牙蔓延意大利西班牙

Some nostrum peddled as a cure for unemployment.

鼓吹解决失业问题妙策

There is no simple nostrum for political and social evils.

对付政治社会罪恶没有简单妙方

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

1945年以来太平洋几乎一直美国地中海”。