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antidote

/an-ti-doht/US // ˈæn tɪˌdoʊt //UK // (ˈæntɪˌdəʊt) //

解毒剂,解药,解毒药,解救剂

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc.
    • : something that prevents or counteracts injurious or unwanted effects: Good jobs are the best antidote to teenage crime.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    an·ti·dot·ed, an·ti·dot·ing.

    • : to counteract with an antidote: Medication was given to antidote the poison the child had swallowed.

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Examples

  • “It’s a viewer-safe antidote to all the vitriol and negativity,” Schiller said.

  • The antidote would be some form of automatic voter registration, where everyone who turns 18 or becomes a naturalized citizen is automatically enrolled.

  • All of the spores — the yeast’s gametes — get the poison, but only those that inherit certain gene versions also get an antidote.

  • The genes, known as wtf genes, produce both a poison and an antidote.

  • The platform’s debut comes nine years after CEO Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, proposed its creation in his book The Lean Startup as an antidote to the usual market pressures to pursue short-term results.

  • It would be inaccurate though to call SIX a direct antidote to ALEC.

  • On the surface, Krampus is a great antidote to the Rockettes and Black Friday.

  • I highly doubt that anyone not already in a state of despair would look to war as an antidote to Godlessness.

  • Reformers understood that constructive societal evolution was the antidote to socialist revolution.

  • “Accelerate this process,” said Royce, adding that the Free Syrian Army is the antidote to the ongoing expansion of ISIS in Syria.

  • They affirmed it was an antidote to all poison; that it expelled rheums, sour humours, and obstructions of all kinds.

  • Another poet of the fifth century recommends the mystical charm as an antidote to diseases of cattle.

  • Nevertheless, there is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation.

  • To minds of a different description, the only antidote to this corruption of language is predication.

  • Again and again the snake bites the iguana, and as often the latter has recourse to the counteracting influences of the antidote.