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单词 elixir
释义
elixir
noun[Cusually singular]
literary
uk
/iˈlɪk.sər/us
/iˈlɪk.sɚ/
asubstance, usually aliquid, with amagicalpowertocure,improve, orpreservesomething:
（通常为液体的）万灵药，灵丹妙药，长生不老药
It'syetanotherhealthproductclaimingto be the elixiroflife/youth(= something to make youlivelonger/stayyoung).这又是一种号称灵丹妙药的保健产品，据说有延年益寿／永葆青春之奇效。
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(Definition ofelixirfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofelixir

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The growth of scientific knowledge raises new visions of a modernelixirof life, and the culture of science may give them misplaced concreteness.
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Should we encourage unproven therapies as elixirs of hope?
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Here, alongside theelixirof ozone and holiday remembrances, there exists an enticing picture of crime-free boulevards and peer-group sociability.
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This was true in many cases, leading individual physicians to refuse to reveal the names of their patients to whom they had prescribed theelixir.
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Before the "elixir" was put on the market, it was tested by the firm for flavor but not for its effect on human life.
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Had the product been called a solution, rather than anelixir, no charge of violating the law could have been brought.
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The prescription and consumption ofelixirsulfanilamide was probably dependent upon local referral networks and the idiosyncratic practices of individual physicians.
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They implicate magic, alchemy and various forms of nonscientific knowledge in the production of sources of eternal youth, and identify a public susceptibility to such elixirs.
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Or is doubt really faith'selixir?
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The rural measure in particular is one that we hope will help to characterize some of the information networks that may have influenced prescription and consumption ofelixirsulfanilamide.
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With little fiscal coordination and no treasury, membership of the euro is by no means anelixirfor good economic health.
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Science is somehow to be theelixirof competitiveness.
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Do they not believe in the newelixir?
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There is a wondrouselixircalled efficiency savings.
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And of course advertising is theelixirof life for the food sector in this overcrowded food market.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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