bromide

1. N-MASS Bromide is a drug that used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset. 溴化物鎮(zhèn)靜劑

...a dose of bromide. ...一服溴化物鎮(zhèn)靜劑。

2. N-COUNT A bromide is a comment that is intended to calm someone down when they are angry, but that has been expressed so often that it has become boring and meaningless. 陳詞濫調(diào)[正式]

The meeting produced the usual bromides about macroeconomic policy, third-world debt and the environment. 會議上提出的還是那些老掉了牙的話題：宏觀經(jīng)濟(jì)政策、第三世界債務(wù)和環(huán)境問題。