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

• If they work, even if it's the placebo effect, if they lower the blood pressure I think patients will be protected further from heart attacks and strokes.
  如果它们真的有效，即使是安慰剂效应，如果它们真的能够降低血压，我想患者也可以受到保护以免发生心脏病和卒中。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Recently, some scientists have begun to question whether the apparently beneficial effects of exercise on thinking might be a placebo effect.
  最近，一些科学家开始怀疑，体育锻炼表现出来的改善思维的益处可能是安慰剂效应。
• 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。
• These buildings and gardens might, he suggests, exert some effect not clinically but psychologically, and the placebo effect is measurably real.
  他暗示，这些建筑与花园或许有一定疗效，但并非是临床作用，而是心理慰藉，而且据测，这种慰藉效果是真实存在的。
• This widely known theory is called the placebo effect.
  这个众所周知的理论被称为安慰剂效应。
• Seems to be exerting a strong placebo effect.
  好像受到一种很强的安慰剂的影响。
• The strategy and method for clinical testing of analgesics and the placebo effect have been discussed in this paper.
  文章还对镇痛药临床研究的策略方法及安慰剂效应进行了详细的讨论。