(noun.) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person.

克勞德特錄入

• The church is calm enough, I am sure; but it might be a steam-power loom in full action, for any sedative effect it has on me. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• Bessie now endeavoured to persuade her to take a sedative draught: she succeeded with difficulty. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• The drought which Reuben administered was of a sedative and narcotic quality, and secured the patient sound and undisturbed slumbers. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• You are of an excitable temper and want a sedative. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• Later, as the sedative action began to gain on the stimulant action, you would slowly become inert and stupefied. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• The action of opium is comprised, in the majority of cases, in two influences--a stimulating influence first, and a sedative influence afterwards. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• I am sure that, with your symptoms, my friend Dr. Watson here would prescribe a sedative. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• She shall make you comfortable: she shall give you a sedative. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• Was it possible that the sedative action of the opium was making itself felt already? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• The sedative influence had got him; the experiment was at an end. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.

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