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单词 nostrum
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nostrum
noun[C]
formal
uk
/ˈnɒs.trəm/us
/ˈnɑː.strəm/
anideaforsolvingaproblem,especiallyone that is not very good:
（未经证实、效果存疑的）灵丹妙药，万应药，妙策
Herefusedtoembraceany of thefashionablenostrums thencurrentindevelopmenteconomics.他拒绝接受当时发展经济学中的任何所谓“妙策”。
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(Definition ofnostrumfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofnostrum

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Within two centuries they made the marenostrumtheir own sea.
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As noted in our first section, public reformers eventually attack those who resist their personal-improvement nostrums.
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A further feature of the genre is that the efficacy of the proposed nostrums crucially depends on how the problem itself is defined.
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Proprietary drugs (or patent medicines) have long been described in highly anachronistic terms, as "nostrums" marketed by "snake-oil peddlers," or as products whose manufacture and sale are equated with quackery.
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Paschanostrumis generally written very carefully.
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Theirnostrumhas been to come up with marvellous plans, models and re-arrangements as a means of diverting attention and dodging the main issues.
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They are simply so many doctrinaires with their nostrums, and they show no appreciation of human nature in dealing with this question.
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It may well be logically untidy, but there can be no clear-cut answer; there is nonostrumfor our economic ills.
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How much ill has been caused to the public by indulging: in the various nostrums put before them?
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Tropical diseases used to be dosed with all kinds of nostrums; now they are largely prevented.
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It is the latestnostrumand magic to solve our problems, but in effect it subordinates reality to theory.
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Something needs to be brought forward to replace the failed nostrums of yester-year.
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It was certainly not thenostrumit was then held out to be.
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I am sure those two nostrums have now left the field.
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At the present time, they are made subject to the desires of those who wish to retain or gain power for their own nostrums.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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