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panacea

/pan-uh-see-uh/US // ˌpæn əˈsi ə //UK // (ˌpænəˈsɪə) //

万能药,灵丹妙药,万能的,万应灵丹

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a remedy for all disease or ills.
    • : an answer or solution for all problems or difficulties: His economic philosophy is a good one, but he tries to use it as a panacea.

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Examples

  • It’s not a panacea or a way to fully absolve ourselves of responsibility, but offsets can help, especially where eliminating emissions won’t happen easily—just be sure to do your homework to find a solid program.

  • The challenge for Kohl’s will be to avoid the trap Penney fell into, thinking that Sephora was a panacea to its overall difficulties.

  • Still, technology may not be a panacea for the hard-pressed farming sector.

  • Free fridges are not a panacea to food insecurity, says Sam Pawliger, who is heading up a community fridge project out of the Clinton Hill Fort Greene Mutual Aid group in Brooklyn.

  • They have to acknowledge that recreation is not a panacea and that there are hard things that come with the outsize power of visitors there for the outdoors.

  • CAP came out for airstrikes against ISIS inside Iraq in June, but warned they were not a panacea.

  • Relying on a phone call a week from your kids is hardly a panacea for loneliness.

  • The Common Core standards are not a panacea; much depends on the curricula that states and districts select to implement them.

  • In these parts of the world it was (and probably still is) the local panacea of choice.

  • But Levy does admit that his “fantasy” is no short-term panacea.

  • Ahimsa truly understood is in my humble opinion a panacea for all evils mundane and extra-mundane.

  • Take him in repose, and he looked a lank ascetic who dreamed of a happy land where flagellation was a joy and pain a panacea.

  • She saw a pained look flit over the countenance of the visitor, and administered the only panacea she possessed.

  • I shall next proceed to consider the Bill which the Government have introduced as a panacea for the woes of Ireland.

  • They contained about 60% alcohol, therefore it was a panacea for all ills that Harrison was afflicted with, and he had many.