nostrum

noun

1. 并非灵验的招数；不会奏效的计策
   an idea that is intended to solve a problem but that will probably not succeed
2. 江湖药
   a medicine that is not made in a scientific way, and that is not effective

1. N-COUNT (尤指老式的或有欠缺的)解决方案;未必奏效的计策
   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.
   1. ...clinging to the nostrums of the dying century.
      对上世纪的招数紧抓不放
2. N-COUNT (未经科学证明有效的)灵丹妙药，神药
   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.
   1. ...pills, tablets, and other nostrums claiming to be magic potions.
      声称包治百病的药丸、药片和其他灵丹妙药

1. As a UK Foreign Office minister recently argued, Mare Nostrum created an unintended pull factor encouraging more migrants to attempt the dangerous sea crossing and thereby leading to more tragic and unnecessary deaths.
   一位英国外交国务大臣最近表示，我们的海行动成了无意间的拉动因素，鼓励更多移民尝试冒险渡海，因此导致更多可悲和不必要的死亡。
2. Yet the ending of Mare Nostrum has done nothing to discourage refugees, who are driven by desperation and criminally seduced by traffickers.
   然而，我们的海行动结束没能阻止难民的脚步，他们被绝望所驱使，又受到了蛇头的怂恿。
3. Photography studio provide you with a few small nostrum you must use.
   北京摄影工作室为您提供一些小妙方你一定用的着。
4. The end of Mare Nostrum coincided with the beginning of Triton, a pan-European border control mission, but its scope is confined to patrolling waters only up to 30 miles off the Italian coastline and is not primarily designed for search and rescue.
   我们的海行动终结，恰逢泛欧洲边境控制行动Triton启动，但是后者的任务范围仅局限于在距意大利海岸线至多30英里的水域内巡逻，并且主要目的并非搜救。
5. He told the patient that he had a nostrum.
   他告诉病人他有秘方。
6. 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。钱不是万能的，但没有钱是万万不能的。
7. Use besides the space outside, furniture is had muti_function utility, also be the one big nostrum of economic space.
   除了空间利用外，家具具有多功能用途，也是节省空间的一大妙方。
8. But Mare Nostrum was wound down at the end of last year due to its lack of support in many European countries grappling with rising anti-immigrant sentiment.
   但是，由于在许多难以应对反移民情绪抬头的欧洲国家缺乏支持，我们的海行动于去年年底被搁置。

noun

1. patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable

2. hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases

   Synonym:    panaceacatholiconcure-all