sleeping draught

1. One of the night-duty nuns gave her a sleeping draught.
   一个值夜班的修女给了她一剂安眠药水。
2. I shall give them a sleeping draught before we go out.
   我们出去之前我先让他们饮一服安眠药水。
3. The administration of a strong sleeping draught to the condemned man every night from which one night he does hot awake, seems a more civilized alternative to our present barbarous procedure, if capital punishment through the influence of backward minds be retained.
   如果因受落后思想的影响而把死刑保留下来的话，让死刑犯每晚服一剂烈性安眠药直至有一夜不再醒来，似乎要比目前的一种野蛮传统做法更加文明。

noun

1. a soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule)

   Synonym:    sleeping pillsleeping tabletsleeping capsule