1.(尤指老式的或有欠缺的)解决方案;未必奏效的计策
You can refer to ideas or theories about how something should be done asnostrums, especially when you think they are old-fashioned or wrong in some way.
e.g. ...clinging to the nostrums of the dying century.
对上世纪的招数紧抓不放
2.(未经科学证明有效的)灵丹妙药,神药
If you refer to a medicine as anostrum, you mean that it is not effective or has not been tested in a proper scientific way.
e.g. ...pills, tablets, and other nostrums claiming to be magic potions.
声称包治百病的药丸、药片和其他灵丹妙药
1. 万应灵药,传家宝:nasal 鼻的, 鼻音的 |nostrum 万应灵药,传家宝 | haven 避难所;安全的地方
2. 秘方:nostomania 怀乡狂 |nostrum 秘方 | notability 值得注意
3. 秘方、骗人的假药:特敏福Tamiflu | 秘方、骗人的假药nostrum | 能改善因血液循环不足而导致的疾病can relieve symptoms caused by insufficient blood circulation
4. nostrum的意思
4. 妙方:nostrilnaresnaris 鼻孔 |nostrum 妙方 |nostrumofficinal 成药
他告诉病人他有秘方。
...clinging to the nostrums of the dying century.对上世纪的招数紧抓不放
...pills, tablets, and other nostrums claiming to be magic potions.声称包治百病的药丸、药片和其他灵丹妙药
He told the patient that he had a nostrum.他告诉病人他有秘方.
Some nostrum peddled as a cure for unemployment.鼓吹可解决失业问题的妙策.
Another party's nostrum is, more churches, more schools, more clergymen.
出自:C. Kingsley