Pharmaceuticals are drugs and medicines, especially as a group that companies make and sell — pills, injections, creams, and the like.

Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceuticals are指的是 drugs and medicines藥品和醫藥, especially as a group that companies make and sell特別是公司製造和販賣的那一整類東西 — pills, injections, creams, and the like藥丸、針劑、藥膏之類的.

In news and business, the word often names that product group, or even the industry that produces it. Everyday English is happier with medicines or, more loosely, drugs (though drugs can also mean illegal ones, so medicines is safer for learners).

In news and business在新聞和商業用語裡, the word often names that product group這個字常常指的就是那一整類產品, or even the industry that produces it甚至是生產它的那個產業. Everyday English is happier with medicines日常英文比較常用medicines or, more loosely, drugs或者更籠統地用drugs (though drugs can also mean illegal ones不過drugs也可能指非法毒品, so medicines is safer for learners所以對學習者來說medicines比較安全).

Pharmaceuticals sounds official: a hospital order, a factory, a stock report.

Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceuticals sounds official聽起來很正式: a hospital order, a factory, a stock report醫院的訂單、工廠，或股市報告都會用這個字.

The singular pharmaceutical can mean one such product, or it can be an adjective (pharmaceutical research). The -s form you have here is the pile of products, not one bottle.

The singular pharmaceutical單數的pharmaceutical can mean one such product可以指其中一件產品, or it can be an adjective也可以當形容詞用 (pharmaceutical research)（像pharmaceutical research）. The -s form you have here你在這裡看到的-s形式 is the pile of products講的是一整堆產品, not one bottle不是一瓶.