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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• However, other researchers say the "high" listeners claim to feel may actually be a placebo effect determined by the individual's desire to feel it.
  而有些研究人员则认为，“音频毒品”之所以能够达到致幻效果，只是因为收听者主观上想要得到这样的感觉。
• 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。
• In other words, the cognitive benefits of playing video games appear to be largely a result of a placebo effect.
  换句话说，玩视频游戏的认知好处似乎主要是心理作用。
• The nocebo effect is the flip side of the more positive placebo effect, and she says that one of the most pernicious nocebo effects can occur when a patient is informed by her doctor that she is ill.
  反安慰剂效应是更为积极的安慰剂效应的另一面。兰格称，最糟糕的反安慰剂效应之一可能发生在患者从医生那里得知自己患病的消息时。
• Virtually all alternative medicine is bunk; but the placebo effect is rather interesting
  几乎所有的替代医学都是胡扯，但产生的安慰效果非常有趣
• Seems to be exerting a strong placebo effect.
  好像受到一种很强的安慰剂的影响。
• 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。