本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛anodyne \AN-uh-dyn\, adjective:
Serving to relieve pain; soothing.
noun:
Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.
But for the most part the British charts were clogged with anodyne ballads.
--Nigel Williamson, "Here's a little story, to tell it is a must," Times (London), January 11, 2000
An avid fisherman himself, McGarr shares Nellie's philosophy: "I do not merely fish for fish," she would say, "I fish for doubt's anodyne and care's surcease."
--Marilyn Stasio, "Crime," New York Times, September 19, 1993
This third novel by a reporter for The New York Times shrewdly examines love as an anodyne for rural isolation.
--"Notable Books of the Year 1997," New York Times, December 7, 1997
And they -- we -- were all presiding over the decanting from some giant, bottomless vat of a liquor both intoxicating and noxious, an anodyne, a distillate -- I knew it -- of self-serving buncombe, of dogma, of lies, pouring down endlessly, pouring and pouring, soaking and sousing an hilarious, and terrifying, audience.
--Norman Rush, "An Edward Sorel Christmas; My Epiphany," New York Times, December 6, 1992更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
Serving to relieve pain; soothing.
noun:
Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.
But for the most part the British charts were clogged with anodyne ballads.
--Nigel Williamson, "Here's a little story, to tell it is a must," Times (London), January 11, 2000
An avid fisherman himself, McGarr shares Nellie's philosophy: "I do not merely fish for fish," she would say, "I fish for doubt's anodyne and care's surcease."
--Marilyn Stasio, "Crime," New York Times, September 19, 1993
This third novel by a reporter for The New York Times shrewdly examines love as an anodyne for rural isolation.
--"Notable Books of the Year 1997," New York Times, December 7, 1997
And they -- we -- were all presiding over the decanting from some giant, bottomless vat of a liquor both intoxicating and noxious, an anodyne, a distillate -- I knew it -- of self-serving buncombe, of dogma, of lies, pouring down endlessly, pouring and pouring, soaking and sousing an hilarious, and terrifying, audience.
--Norman Rush, "An Edward Sorel Christmas; My Epiphany," New York Times, December 6, 1992更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net