词为我用 - soporific

词汇释义

soporific  TEM8    GRE

UK  /ˌsɒp.ərˈɪf.ɪk/ US  /ˌsɑː.pəˈrɪf.ɪk/

1. adj, Something that is soporific makes you feel sleepy.催眠的，使人想睡觉的

2. noun,

A drug or other substance that induces sleep; a hypnotic. 催眠药，引起睡眠的药物或其它物质；催眠药

外刊例句

1. He is also a founder of Dream Water, a liquid soporific meant as a kind of reverse Red Bull.(New York Times）

2. However, education is not some soporific idly proclaimed by those seeking to ease their conscience about income inequality.(Forbes)

3. One of your correspondents was among the 62,712 fans disappointed by the teams’ soporific play.(Forbes)

4. The anonymous author seemed to relish his cheeky, slightly un-Timesean kicker, which quoted a Republican on the state of the House: “a supine, subservient, soporific, superfluous, supercilious, pusillanimous body of nitwits.”(New York Times)

5. Conference coverage on TV tends towards the soporific; by contrast, Chile coverage in newspapers was an also-ran because the pictures counted for everything.(The Guardian)

6. It’s intolerably boring; the expanse of space in the game is huge and empty, aside from some treasure and tedious battles, and navigating it is soporific.(The Verge)

7. United’s problem was in defence, though, as this 45 minutes began as the first did with a concerningly soporific approach.(The Guardian)

8. Players adapted so quickly that the rounds were completed some 30 minutes quicker than the usual soporific near-five-hour average for a threesome.(Reuters)

9. When the game — a soporific 3-0 win for England — failed to capture the fans’ imagination, though, a few creative minds started fiddling with the cards.(New York Times)

10. With no further goals and little urgency on show from either side, the last half-hour was soporific, if not downright tedious.(The Guardian)

11. Tennis would appear to be inherently ill suited to radio, both overly busy and potentially as soporific, in terms of narration, as something like the shipping news.(New York Times)

12. Massa also joined the growing debate about the soporific nature of the race at Sakhir, which sparked suggestions that an immediate rule change is required.(The Guardian)

词汇搭配

soporific effect, approach, nature

词汇来源

"tending to produce sleep," 1680s, from French soporifique (17c.), formed in French from Latin sopor (genitive soporis) "deep sleep" (from PIE root *swep- "to sleep"). As a noun from 1722. Earlier as an adjective was soporiferous (1580s as "characterized by excessive sleep," c. 1600 as "soporific").

近义词

drowsy, hypnotic, narcotic, opiate, sleepy, slumberous (or slumbrous), somniferous, somnolent

反义词

stimulant, arousing, awakening, energizing, invigorating, rousing, stimulating, wakening, waking,refreshing, restorative, reviving, stimulative

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