What if someone could create a pill that mimicked the physiological effects of eating less without actually forcing people to eat less?
如果有人能发明一种药丸,既能模拟少吃的生理效应,又不会真正地强迫人们少吃,会怎么样呢?
Some politician somewhere will inevitably try to use a lease as a pill to ease budget woes.
某些地方的政客不可避免地将租赁的收益当做治愈预算困境的良药。
In fact it was just a placebo, a pill with no medicine, a sugar pill, like a homeopathy pill.
然而实际上,这些药片只是一种宽心剂,一种没有药物成分的糖片,类似于顺势疗法的药片罢了。
But what if soldiers could take a pill before going on duty that would prevent damage to hearing?
但是假使士兵们在执勤前服用一片能够预防听力损伤的药呢?
Then they shoved it into a pill bottle and sealed it inside the walls of the building they were working on.
最后,两名木匠将名片装进一只药瓶里,并将瓶子密封在他们正在修建的建筑的墙内。
Diabetes does not just mean you take a pill or injection every day. It means you can lose a decade of life.
糖尿病并不只意味着你每天要吃药或注射,还意味着你可能少活10来年。
Taking stable iodine as a pill blocks the uptake of the hazardous radioisotope, which has a half-life of 8 days.
服用稳定的碘元素会阻止危险碘同位素的摄入,碘同位素的半衰期仅为八天。
But encouraging us to get a complete suite of vitamins is not the same as suggesting that we get them by popping a pill.
但是,鼓励人们全面摄入维生素不意味着是在建议服用补充剂药物。
But if a pill becomes available and is approved by the FDA, its popularity could quickly trump any slower-going solutions.
但是如果能有一种药片,并且被FDA批准的话,它的流行程度将会超过任何一种缓慢的解决办法。
Critics said it fostered the misconception that modern ills can be dealt with by a pill instead of living a healthier life.
批评人士表示,它加深人们的误解,以为现代疾病可以通过一粒药品就能治愈的,而无需通过健康的生活方式来改善。
Often we have people saying to us, is there a drug, is there a pill, a magic pill they can take which will help the anger to stop.
通常会有人问我们,这里是否有某些他们可以使用的药物,药片或奇药可以控制气愤情绪。
2:Bill is making money hand over fist these days -- he invented a pill that wives can give their husbands to stop them from snoring.
他说:Bill近来赚进了大笔大笔的钱,因为他发明了一种药片,妻子可给丈夫服用使他不打鼾。 这里handoverfist意思是快速地做某事。
It wouldn't be a quick fix, but a pill that increased metabolism by 500 calories a day would speed weight loss by a pound a week.
这种药不是速效减肥药,不过一片药可以让机体每天多消耗500卡路里,每周可多减肥1磅。
A pill that can boost the activity of brown fat could help obese people, or others looking to shed pounds by burning more calories.
增强增色脂肪活性的药物可以帮助肥胖的人和其他想通过燃烧热量减肥的人。
With the rise of obesity in the U.S., many drug makers have long sought a pill that could suppress appetite and be marketed to the masses.
随着美国肥胖症的增加,很多药品生产企业早就开始寻找能够抑制胃口,并可以大量销售的药物。
At the moment people are being encouraged to believe that taking a pill will make them feel better by reversing some defective brain process.
现在,我们只能通过鼓励病人服用药物来扭转脑障碍的运作,让病人觉得好受些。
Even if it can't be prescribed or put into a pill, he says the power of love in regulating pain is something that more people can take advantage of.
即使这种方法不能作为处方或是制成药物,他说爱情在调节疼痛中发挥的作用是大多数人可以拿来利用的。
But a growing number of mental health experts fear the increasing tendency to take a pill to beat the blues could actually affect human evolution.
但是越来越多的心理健康专家担心,越来越多的人通过药物来对付忧郁甚至可能影响整个人类的进化。
But it does hold out the tantalising hope that, at some point in the future, it might be possible to pop a pill and put an extra decade or two on your life.
但雷帕霉素确实展现了一种希望,极具吸引力,即在未来的某个时刻,只要吃上一片药,就可能延长十年到二十年寿命。
Doctors wore white coats, spoke in soothing tones, exuding confidence and medical know-how, and if they told you a pill would make you better, it would.
医生穿着白大褂,用令人宽慰的语调讲述着,口中关心的话语和医术秘诀皆娓娓然,如果他们告诉你药片会使你好起来,那就会好起来。
As precautionary health measures go, supplements are easy. Compare the two seconds required to swallow a pill with the constant vigilance necessary to exercise and eat right.
在采取预防保健时,与坚持锻炼和正确选择饮食相比,只需要保持必要的警惕,花两秒钟服用补充剂药物,这种方法显得容易多了。
As precautionary health measures go, supplements are easy. Compare the two seconds required to swallow a pill with the constant vigilance necessary to exercise and eat right.
在采取预防保健时,与坚持锻炼和正确选择饮食相比,只需要保持必要的警惕,花两秒钟服用补充剂药物,这种方法显得容易多了。
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