pill
noun [ C ] uk/pɪl/ us/pɪl/
(MEDICINE)
B1 药丸;药片
a small solid piece of medicine that a person swallows without chewing (= crushing with the teeth)
a sleeping pill 安眠药
a vitamin pill 维生素片
My mother takes three or four pills a day. 我妈妈每天吃3至4粒药。
Jamie's always had trouble swallowing pills. 杰米吞药时总是很费劲。
the pill （女性的）口服避孕药
a type of pill for women that is taken every day in order to prevent them from becoming pregnant
Are you on the pill? 你在服避孕药吗？
- More examples
- The new pill will be used alongside existing medicines.
- These pills I've been taking have done nothing for me.
- The doctor prescribed some pills.
- Dad's always forgetting to take his pills.
- When he was 17 he took an overdose of sleeping pills and nearly died.
(PERSON)
US令人讨厌的人
an annoying person
Jennifer was being such a pill today. 珍妮弗今天真烦人。
(ON CLOTHING)
US (UK bobble)（衣服或布料上的）球粒，纤维绒球
a small ball of threads that develops on the surface of clothes or material
She sat there sulking and picking the pills off her sweater. 她坐在那里生闷气，一个劲地拽着毛衣上的绒球。
Idiom
sugar the pillidiom UK (US sweeten the pill) 使不愉快的事变得较易接受
to make something bad seem less unpleasant
Plans to improve public services are a way of sugaring the pill of increased taxation. 改进公益服务的诸项计划是缓和人们对增税的不满情绪的一种方式。
pill
verb [ I ] US uk/pɪl/ us/pɪl/ (UK bobble)
（衣服或布料）起球粒，起纤维绒球
If a piece of clothing or material pills, it develops small balls of threads on its surface.