If a drug or an activity is habit-forming, it makes you want to keep taking it or doing it, again and again, until it is hard to stop.

If a drug or an activity is habit-forming如果一種藥或一項活動是habit-forming（會讓人上癮）的, it makes you want to keep taking it or doing it它會讓你一直想繼續吃它或做它, again and again一次又一次, until it is hard to stop直到難以停下來。

Doctors use it about medicine — some sleeping pills, some painkillers. People also stretch it to games, sugar, phones, and shopping: “This puzzle is habit-forming.” It is a warning word, a little softer and more polite than addictive.

Doctors use it about medicine醫生會用這個字講藥物 — some sleeping pills, some painkillers像某些安眠藥、某些止痛藥。People also stretch it to games, sugar, phones, and shopping大家也把這個字延伸用在遊戲、糖、手機，和購物上: 'This puzzle is habit-forming.''This puzzle is habit-forming.'（這個拼圖會讓人上癮）It is a warning word這是一個帶警告意味的字, a little softer and more polite than addictive比addictive稍微溫和、客氣一點。

A label might say “may be habit-forming” when they do not want to shout that it can make you an addict. Though actually, for strong drugs, addictive is the blunter and often fairer word; habit-forming can sound as if it is only a small habit.

A label might say標籤上可能會寫 'may be habit-forming''may be habit-forming'（可能會讓人上癮）, when they do not want to shout that it can make you an addict這樣才不用直接說它會讓人上癮。Though actually不過其實, for strong drugs對強效藥物來說, addictive is the blunter and often fairer wordaddictive是更直接、通常也更公平的說法; habit-forming can sound as if it is only a small habithabit-forming聽起來可能只是個小習慣。