喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈvæliəm/煩寧（鎮靜藥）

    A type of medicine that doctors give to help people feel calm or less worried.

    Valium 是一種藥的「品牌名」，醫生開給很緊張或睡不著的人，讓他們放鬆下來。可以想成它是某個牌子的名字，就像 OK 繃是「品牌名」變成大家口中的常用詞一樣；它的藥物學名是 diazepam。因為是藥，所以一定要醫生開、按醫生說的用。

    示範例句 · Example

    The doctor explained that Valium is a medicine and must only be taken when a doctor says so.

    中文翻譯醫生解釋說，煩寧是一種藥，只能在醫生說可以時才服用。

    常見搭配

    • take Valium

      服用煩寧

      to use the medicine Valium

      She only takes Valium when her doctor tells her to.

    • a dose of Valium

      一劑煩寧

      a measured amount of the medicine

      The doctor wrote down the right dose of Valium.

    意思相近

    diazepam

core核心畫面

You can picture the little pill a doctor hands an anxious patient — a brand-name calming medicine that the knot of worry and lets a tense, person settle down.

可以想成醫生遞給一個焦慮病人的那顆小藥丸：一種有商標名的鎮靜藥，吃下去後緊繃、害怕的人會慢慢放鬆下來，心裡那團擔憂的結被解開——這就是 Valium（煩寧）的核心畫面。

意思相近

diazepam

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Valiumnoun/ˈvæl.i.əm/

  • 1

    medicinepharmacologysciencesThe drug diazepam.

    • These are the minor tranquilizers such as Diazepam (Valium), Chlordiazepoxide (Librium), Oxazepam (Serax), and related benzodiazepines, and Meprobamate, which are used to treat anxiety neurosis.
    • Mothers little helpers were pills—Miltown, amphetamine, barbiturates, Librium, and Valium were the most popular and widely available in the fifties and early sixties—that were used to keep women in their place, to make them comfortable in a setting that should have been uncomfortable, to encourage them to focus on tasks that did not matter.
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    A Valium pill.

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