N-COUNT You can refer to ideas or theories about how something should be done as nostrums, especially when you think they are old-fashioned or wrong in some way. (尤指老式的或有欠缺的)解决方案 [正式] [usu pl, oft N 'of' n]
...yesterday's failed socialist nostrums.
...昨日失败的社会主义解决方案。
N-COUNT If you refer to a medicine as a nostrum, you mean that it is not effective or has not been tested in a proper scientific way. 无效而又不科学的疗法
...pills, tablets, and other nostrums claiming to be magic potions.
...声称包治百病的药丸、药片和其他江湖疗法。
Some nostrum peddled as a cure for unemployment.
鼓吹可解决失业问题的妙策。
There is no nostrum in the world. To keep FIT, just come to this body-building centre and have a try.
世上本无万能灵药,欲健康,请来本健美中心试一试。
Even though hard to sell at the time, there are persistent rumours that a Mare Nostrum style chronograph is about to re-appear in the coming years.
即使难以卖出的时候,有传言说玛勒我们的作风计时器即将再度出现,在未来几年。
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