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

• The results from our study suggest that the benefits of aerobic exercise are not a placebo effect, said Cary Stothart, a graduate student in cognitive psychology at Florida State University, who led the study.
  我们的研究结果显示，有氧运动的好处不是安慰剂效应，佛罗里达州立大学的认知心理学研究生卡里·斯托塔特（CaryStothart）说。
• The placebo effect is a psychobiological phenomenon that can be attributable to different mechanisms, including expectation of improvement and conditioning.
  安慰剂效应是一种神经生理学效应，可以归因于不同的机制，包括期望和条件机制。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The researchers found a strong placebo effect in the volunteers who received inactive starch capsules, as can be expected when studying subjective feelings like stress.
  研究者们在服用无活性淀粉胶囊的志愿者中发现了强烈的安慰剂效应，这在研究主管感受如紧张的研究中是可预期的。
• Placebo effect, Applegate said.
  艾伯盖特说：这是安慰剂效应。
• 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。
• 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。