My dissertation, like most in recent years, was a collection of loosely related papers bound together for the sole purpose of getting a degree. It bore the soporific title, "Essays on Consumption.(但我的博士论文和许多近年来的文章一样,都是一堆文章拼拼凑凑的结果,权想要拿个学位罢了,题目也没什么新意,叫作《论消费》。)
The election campaign was soporific but the results are startling.(竞选活动令人昏昏欲睡,但结果却令人吃惊。)
In Lavengro (or is it Romany Rye?) there is an impossible character, a victim of insomnia, who finds that a volume of Wordsworth's poems is the only sure soporific; but that was Borrow s malice.(在《拉文格罗》(或者是《吉卜赛男人》)一书中有一个无可救药的人,患有失眠症,他发现华尔华斯的一卷诗集是惟一有效的催眠剂,但那只不过是伯罗的恶作剧而已。)
Those who insisted on worshiping at the altar of soporific right thinking-those who thought that conflict had become obsolete-were swept away in less than 20 years.(那些坚持在催眠般权利思想的祭坛边祈祷的人,那些认为冲突已经成为过去的人——在不到20年的时间里被一扫而光。)
His voice had an almost soporific effect.(他的声音具有催眠作用。)
The THIRD and final debate, which took place at Hofstra University, New York, on Wednesday October 15th was a firecracker of a show, as riveting as the two previous debates were soporific.(在10月15日周三的纽约Hofstra大学内举行的,第三次并且也是最后一次的辩论落下了帷幕。一场和前两场同样精彩的辩论结束了。)
After his soporific speech for an hour, the speaker received no applause from the audience.(在他一个小时催眠般的演讲后,演讲者没有收到观众任何掌声。)
Providence, out of pity for mankind, has instilled a soporific charm into all tedious things.(老天爷悲悯世人,他在一切沉闷的东西上都施加了催眠般的魔力。)
I often have to take soporific before I go to bed.(我常在睡前不得不服安眠药。)
But there have always been what she calls "candy alarmists," who warned that candy was too stimulating, too soporific, poisoned, or otherwise hazardous.(但世上从不缺少她所谓的“糖果杞人忧天者”,他们警告大家糖果容易令人亢奋、有催眠作用、有毒,总之危害重重。)