sugar pill
sugar pill — 名詞
1. a small tablet made of sugar or another inactive substance, given to a patient i
糖丸
不含藥效成分的安慰劑藥丸
a small tablet made of sugar or another inactive substance, given to a patient instead of real medicine. The patient believes it is the real treatment, and the pill is used either to test a new drug in a study or to produce a positive effect through the patient's own belief.
Doctors gave half the patients the real drug and the other half a sugar pill.
醫生讓一半病人服用真正的藥物，另一半則服用糖丸。
clinical trial pattern: real drug vs. sugar pill
Asher thought the sugar pill was helping his headache, but it only contained sugar.
Asher 以為那顆糖丸能緩解他的頭痛，但那顆藥丸只含糖而已。
deception context: patient believes it is medicine
At Taipei City Hospital, patients got either real medicine or a sugar pill — relief was similar after three weeks.
在台北市立醫院，病人要麼拿到真正的藥物，要麼拿到糖丸——三週後兩組的緩解程度相似。
compound modifier: sugar pill group
Gita took a sugar pill daily in a sleep study — her scores matched the real drug group.
Gita 在一個睡眠研究中每天服用一顆糖丸——她的分數與真正藥物組相當。
During a clinical trial, a nurse handed Diego a sugar pill and explained it had no active ingredients.
在一項臨床試驗中，一名護士遞給 Diego 一顆糖丸，並解釋說這顆藥丸沒有有效成分。
- take a sugar pill
- give someone a sugar pill
- sugar pill group
- receive a sugar pill
- a mere sugar pill
- placebo
the standard medical term; broader in meaning than sugar pill
- dummy pill
informal, used mainly in the context of trials
- inactive pill
descriptive term used in research papers
- active drug
the real medicine being tested against the placebo
- verum
technical term for the genuine treatment in a trial
文法句型
[countable] a sugar pill
the sugar pill group
用法筆記
Common in clinical research contexts, especially in the phrase 'sugar pill group' for the control arm of a trial. The term implies that the recipient does not know the pill is inactive; 'placebo' is the standard medical term and can be used whether or not the patient is aware.
常見錯誤
同根字
- placebo名詞B2
- placebo effect名詞C1