在这种情况下，他的话起不了什么安慰作用。
在接下来几年里，科技总会在大大小小的方面促进社会进步，但对那些生活和工作都被自动化颠覆的人来说，这并没有什么安慰作用。
Technology will improve society in ways big and small over the next few years, yet this will be little comfort to those who find their lives and careers upended by automation.
患者能感觉到治疗，而且会留下印记，这会起到安慰作用。
A patient can feel the treatment and has marks after it, and this can contribute to a placebo effect.
如果维生素对任何预防病症都有益，那也很可能是因为人们长久以来的心理安慰作用。
If vitamins are useful for anything, it's probably for tapping into our old friend the placebo effect.
电梯里的关门按钮常常起心理安慰作用，好让那些连10秒钟都觉得漫长难捱的乘梯人分散注意力。
The door-close button in elevators, so often a placebo used to distract riders to whom ten seconds seems an eternity.
孙维德强调，北京正在解决这个问题。不过，他所举最近春季沙尘暴减少的例子，对参赛选手来说不会有什么安慰作用，因为参赛选手是在2008年8月抵达北京。
Mr Sun stresses that Beijing is working on the problem - though his example of a recent reduction in spring sandstorms will be of little comfort to competitors arriving in August 2008.
孙维德强调，北京正在解决这个问题。不过，他所举最近春季沙尘暴减少的例子，对参赛选手来说不会有什么安慰作用，因为参赛选手是在2008年8月抵达北京。
Mr Sun stresses that Beijing is working on the problem? Though his example of a recent reduction in spring sandstorms will be of little comfort to competitors arriving in August 2008.
对数百万失业者来说，通货膨胀率的微降是不起作用的安慰。
A small drop in the inflation rate was cold comfort for the millions without a job.
这些数字理论上看来可能不错，但对岛民们却起不到安慰的作用。
These figures may look good on paper but are cold comfort to the islanders themselves.
当然他们总可以通过养老金基金参与其中——但一旦信用循环断裂这也丝毫不能起到什么安慰的作用。
Of course, they can always take part via their pension funds-though that will be little comfort if the credit cycle ever becomes a crunch.
当你开始怀疑它能起作用，认为那个目标太难实现时，往往就会导致你想作弊或希望用食物来安慰自己。
You start to doubt that itcan bedone, that the goal is too hard, and that invariably leads to wantingto cheat or wanting to comfort yourself with foods.
可是，当你没有工作，当你领不到薪水，那是简直不起作用的安慰。
But, when it's you without a job, when you're not able to draw a paycheck, that's cold comfort.
在单一治疗试验中，常见报导的副作用包括体重增加(5%相比安慰剂1%)，头晕(3%相比1%)和高血压(3%相比1%)。
Adverse events most commonly reported in the monotherapy trial included increased weight (5% vs placebo, 1%), dizziness (3% vs 1%), and hypertension (3% vs 1%).
随着时间的推移，当你认识到你的儿子在祖国安全工作中起着重要作用，以人们永远不会忘记的非常勇敢无畏的方式死去，你就会感到安慰。
Over time, comfort comes from understanding that your son has played an important role in the security of our country and died in such a courageous and brave way that nobody will ever forget it.
“对于安慰病人并助其战胜死亡禁忌，‘活葬礼’有一定的积极作用”，杨表示。
"The 'living funeral' has some positive effects of comforting the sick and overcoming the death taboo, " Yang said.
当然，对那些失去工作的人来说，这并不是什么安慰。同时对那些不得不把自己的长期雇员打发走的小企业主来说，也起不到什么慰籍作用。
Of course, that is no solace for those who have lost their jobs, or to the small business owners whose hearts break at letting longtime employees go, "he said."
总的来说，我们地球底端的大陆在过去50年里暖了差不多0.5摄氏度——-对气候学家来说，这是个不起任何作用的安慰。
As a whole, the continent at the bottom of the Earth has warmed by roughly half a degree Celsius in the last 50 years-cold comfort for climatologists.
安慰剂效应是指一个没有治疗效果的物质，但如果你相信它有，就会起到一定的作用。
The Placebo effect is when an ineffectual substance that is believed to have healing properties produces the desired effect.
从某些方面来看，安慰剂是理想的药物：他们通常没有副作用，而且基本上是免费的。
In certain ways, placebos are ideal drugs: they typically have no side effects and are essentially free.
医生们相信安慰剂起作用，是因为念力是一种力量。
Placebos work, doctors believed, because the mind is a powerful thing.
这种可能引起安慰剂效应的“无效治疗”经常被作为对照组应用于临床试验，科学家依此判断被测药物的额外作用。
Dummy treatments that might elicit the placebo effect are often used in clinical trials as a comparison group to allow scientists to measure the additional effects of experimental medicines.
如果你不知道自己正在服药，那么就连一些被判定为临床试验效果“比安慰剂还要好”的处方药也不会起作用。
Some prescription drugs that were judged to perform "better than placebo" in clinical trials don't work unless you know you're taking them.
该调查对此建议医生仅对那些患有小病和安慰剂能起到有效作用的病人使用安慰剂。
The study advises doctors to only prescribe placebos if the patient has a minor illness and if it seems likely that a placebo treatment will be successful.
严格的精神病治疗方法(仅靠药物)和严格的心理疗法(仅靠谈话疗法)都没有一片安慰剂自己发挥的作用好。
Neither a strictly psychiatric approach (just drugs) nor a strictly psychological approach (just talk therapy) works much better than a placebo pill on its own.
安慰剂效应起作用了。
当然，对那些失去工作的人来说，这并不是什么安慰。同时对那些不得不把自己的长期雇员打发走的小企业主来说，也起不到什么慰籍作用。
Of course, that is no solace for those who have lost their jobs, or to the small business owners whose hearts break at letting longtime employees go.
海水对我有安慰和镇静的作用。
纽约市人行横道的很多步行按钮之前曾经有作用，但如今只是安慰按钮。
Many walk buttons at pedestrian crossings were once functional in New York City, but now serve as placebo buttons.
纽约市人行横道的很多步行按钮之前曾经有作用，但如今只是安慰按钮。
Many walk buttons at pedestrian crossings were once functional in New York City, but now serve as placebo buttons.
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