【medicine音标】 英[ˈmedsn] 美[ˈmedɪsn]
【单词释义】 medicine是什么意思：
n.医学；药物；有功效的东西，良药
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] medicines
【关联词/派生词】
medical adj.医学的；医药的；医疗的 n.体格检查
medicate v.用药治疗；加药品于
medication n.药物，药剂；药物治疗
medicinal adj. 药用的，有疗效的；药的
medically adv. 医学上地；医药上地；体格上地
【medicine形近词/近似词】
internecine adj.自相残杀的；两败俱伤的；内讧的
vaccine n.疫苗，痘苗 adj.痘苗的，疫苗的
【单词例句】
◇ To prepare for the oncoming cold winter, people there like to eat high-calorie food such as chicken, duck, beef, mutton, and fish, which are usually stewed with the four Chinese medicines: angelica, ligusticum wallichii, Chinese herbaceous peony and rehmannia glutinosa libosch, to enhance the effectiveness of the nourishment.
为了应对即将到来的寒冬，那里的人会吃鸡、鸭、牛、羊、鱼肉这样的高热量食物，而且通常都会加入当归、川芎、白芍、熟地黄这四味中药炖成“四物汤”来提高滋补效果。
---- Start of Winter
◇ The reason has to do with how our bodies respond to beverages, according to Ronald Maughan, a professor at St. Andrews' School of Medicine and the study's author.
这项研究的作者、圣安德鲁斯大学医学院教授罗纳尔德·莫恩说，原因和我们的身体对饮料的反应机制有关。
---- Which drink is best for hydration? Hint: It isn't water
◇ In fact, women who took 4,400 steps per day, on average, were about 40 percent less likely to die during the follow-up period of about four years compared with women who took 2,700 steps. The findings were published Wednesday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
事实上，与每天走2700步的女性相比，平均每天走4400步的女性在大约四年的随访期间死亡的可能性要低40%。该研究结果于上周三发表在《美国医学会内科杂志》上。
---- How Many Steps You Need To Take A Day To Maintain Good Healt
◇ The old adage that "laughter is the best medicine" may contain an element of truth when it comes to heart health.
老话说“笑是最好的良药”，这句话在心脏健康方面也许是有道理的。
---- Study finds laughter is good for heart health
◇ The new study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, drew from data from more than 1 million male Swedish conscripts between 16 and 25, who were followed for an average of 33 years from 1968 to 2005.
这项发表在《英国运动医学》杂志上的新研究查看了超100万名16岁至25岁瑞典男性士兵的数据，从1968年到2005年这些人被跟踪调查平均长达33年。
---- Fitness earlier in life reduces cancer risk when older
◇ Shelby Harris, a sleep medicine expert and a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine agrees.
睡眠医学专家谢尔比-哈里斯是阿尔伯特-爱因斯坦医学院的一名教授，她也同意这种观点。
---- The Best Positions in Bed Revealed
◇ The nasal cycle happens, according to the US National Library of Medicine, several times during the day, and is only brought to your attention if your nose is clogged up more than usual.
据《美国国家医学图书馆》透露，鼻子循环一天会出现好几次。只有当你的鼻子比平时更堵的时候，你才会注意到这一点。
---- Only One Side of Your Nose Gets Blocked at a Time
◇ "There are a few different things going on here," Dr. Angela Catic, a geriatrician and associate professor in the Huffington Center on Aging at Baylor College of Medicine, tells Yahoo Life. One, she says, is that the discs between the vertebrae in your spine lose fluid as you get older. "They become dehydrated and, with that, they lose height — and you lose a bit of height," she says.
美国贝勒医学院赫芬顿衰老研究中心的老年病学专家、副教授安吉拉·卡蒂克博士告诉雅虎生活频道：“有几种不同情况。”一种情况是，年纪大了以后，脊柱椎间盘所含的液体会减少。她指出：“脊柱椎间盘脱水后会变短，从而让你变矮。”
---- Why do you shrink when you get older
◇ John Quenby,professor of physics at Imperial College of Science,Technology and Medicine in London,said the most likely explanation for gamma-ray bursts is that they result from the enormous energy released when two very dense objects—called neutron stars—collide.
伦敦的国家科学技术和医学学院的物理教授John Quenby说道：对伽马射线爆炸的最好解释就是，他们是由于两个被称为中子星的高密度物体的碰撞，而释放出来的巨大能量。
---- The Big Bang