placebo: [13] Placebo started life as the first person future singular of the Latin verb placēre ‘please’ (source of English please), and hence meant originally ‘I will please’. It was the first word of the antiphon to the first psalm in the Roman Catholic service for the dead, Placēbo Dominō in rēgiōne vivōrum ‘I will please the Lord in the land of the living’. The word’s medical use emerged at the end of the 18th, and arose from the notion of a medicine ‘pleasing’ the patient rather than having any direct physiological effect. => please
placebo (n.)
early 13c., name given to the rite of Vespers of the Office of the Dead, so called from the opening of the first antiphon, "I will please the Lord in the land of the living" (Psalm cxiv:9), from Latin placebo "I shall please," future indicative of placere "to please" (see please). Medical sense is first recorded 1785, "a medicine given more to please than to benefit the patient." Placebo effect attested from 1900.
双语例句
1. The placebo effect can be understood only if we acknowledge the unity of mind and body.
只有我们承认身心一体，安慰剂效果才能被理解。
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2. The placebo has been found to work with a lot of different cases.
人们已发现安慰剂能在很多不同的病例中发挥作用。
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3. Methods A multicenter, randomized, double - blind , placebo - controlled study was carried ont.
方法多中心 、 随机 、 双盲 、 安慰剂对照研究.
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4. The placebo effect refers to all the observable behaviors caused by placebo.
安慰剂效应是指由安慰剂所引起的可观察的行为.
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5. METHODS: We conducted a multicenter, randomized, double - blind, parallel - treatment, placebo - controlled study in Japan.