英语词汇“pill”的意思、释义、用法解释及翻译-春雷网

pill¹

noun pɪlpɪl

1A small round mass of solid medicine for swallowing whole.
药片，药丸；片剂，丸剂
an overdose of sleeping pills
Example sentencesExamples
- If this is not helpful, your doctor may prescribe stronger steroids or antihistamine pills.
- Remember that herbal medicines and vitamin pills can also be dangerous if taken if large doses, so store these out of reach too.
- Laxatives come as syrups, powders, and also as pills, which are swallowed or put inside the anus.
- Need for withdrawal from laxatives, diet pills, or diuretics.
- They may be inhaled or swallowed as a pill or liquid.
- Most of us swallow our pills with a glass of juice or a swig of water.
- He was a very bright, socially sensitive, and insightful young man whose complaint was that he could not swallow pills or capsules.
- Don't leave medicines or pills lying around where children and toddlers can get at them.
- Many have swallowed the bitter pill and tried again, often with salutiferous effects.
- He takes a cup of water and swallows the handful of pills in one gulp.
- The ability to swallow pills and pay for prescribed medication can also affect the outcome of therapy.
- Patients may miss appointments, may not actually swallow the pills, or may deliberately regurgitate the medications.
- Will we become immune to it and eventually need a whole pill to get the same results?
- I've been taking garlic pills, magnesium pills, an aspirin a day and vitamin C.
- She had been unable to obtain relief from over-the-counter medications, because she could not swallow pills.
- Your doctor may also ask you if you take any medicines such as birth control pills, laxatives or diet pills.
- The patient also may begin trying to take whole pills, one at a time, during this period rather than crushing them.
Synonyms
tablet, capsule, caplet, pellet, lozenge, pastille
rare jujube, bolus, troche, pilule
1. 1.1the pill An oral contraceptive in pill form.
  避孕丸
  is she on the pill?
  Example sentencesExamples
  I could always go into Planned Parenthood, not tell them about my pulmonary embolism, and get back on the pill, but I'm not sure that it would be worth it.
  Mr Myers claimed the reason the couple stopped was because she told him she was not on the pill.
  She has a four year old child, had a termination two years ago, and is on the pill.
  For those of you women who smoke and are not allowed to be on the pill but hate condoms, this seems like a great contraceptive, right?
  She was on the pill or at least she had said she was.
  Some women find this method disconcerting because the period they have each month while on the pill is reassurance that they haven't become pregnant.
  Women who were currently on the birth control pill were expected to be less likely than women who were not on the pill to indicate intentions to use condoms with a new partner in the future.
  You can have a contraceptive consultation, so if you are thinking of going on the pill or another form of contraception, you can make an appointment with one of the doctors there.
  And so in some cases we have to put critically endangered species like this on the pill, on some form of contraception because we actually don't want to breed.
  Pregnant women and those on the pill are at the highest risk of developing deep vein thrombosis on long-distance flights.
  I went on the pill for the first time a couple of months ago, and since then I've been crying a lot, for no apparent reason.
  As well as contraception and other health benefits, there are risks of being on the pill.
  This is the largest women's health study ever done and contradicts other research on the pill.
  It's been almost eight years since I was on the pill.
  According to the clever people in St. Andrew's lab in the UK, women on the pill have different ideals of male sexual attractiveness to those who are not taking the pill.
  If you've used condoms only, for instance, you can ask about going on the pill or another hormonal method for contraceptive backup.
  That occurs mainly in people who have been on the pill for more than 10 years and who smoke cigarettes.
  These women faced a 60 percent greater risk of getting pregnant while on the pill.
  I was on the pill as well but we decided to use a condom.
  But if she is on the pill and taking antibiotics, the one will lessen the effect of the other.
2dated, informal A tedious or unpleasant person.
〈北美，非正式〉讨厌的家伙
3dated, informal (in some sports) a humorous term for a ball.
〈非正式，幽默〉（某些运动用的）球，弹

Phrases

a bitter pill (to swallow)

An unpleasant or painful necessity (to accept).
不得不承受的苦事
Example sentencesExamples
- Eventually he murmurs ‘It's a bitter pill to swallow.’
- ‘It is a bitter pill to swallow but it is necessary to cut back and balance the books,’ he said.
- Of course, if your finances are already squeezed to the breaking point, the rate hike is a bitter pill to swallow - good for you in the long run, but hard to take right now.
- Cotterill admitted that seeing the game snatched from his side's grasp with extra time looming was a bitter pill to swallow.
- But it is a bitter pill to swallow for all those who have worked to make the colliery profitable in recent years - without the help of government aid.
- Defeat in this game was a bitter pill to swallow for all concerned, players, mentors and supporters because it should not have happened.
- Senator Boswell said while the agreement was a bitter pill to swallow, it was important to remember it did not leave the industry worse off.
- This one is - and should be - a bitter pill to swallow.
- This is a bitter pill to swallow after we had played so well since the new year, but we will be back.

sugar (or sweeten) the pill

Make an unpleasant or painful necessity more palatable.
不得不承受的苦事
Example sentencesExamples
- Indeed, they magnanimously suggest that the road tax be abolished to sugar the pill.
- He makes no attempt to sweeten the pill by positing an upside to emotional politics or strategies designed to boost self-esteem.
- As a result, the government took the less politically painful and unprecedented step of delaying the tax rise - sweetening the pill a little.
- Opportunities for young people to have practical involvement with history and archaeology, especially the kind that sweetens the pill of prescriptive curriculum schooling, are, I believe, very limited.
- Brown has always said he is an honest guy, but even mild-mannered Donnelly was irked by Brown continuously sugaring the pill.
- With no asides and soliloquies, nothing is put in to sweeten the pill.
- The ‘horrible’ truth may taste ‘bad’ but Fischer, like any funny man worth his salt, sweetens the pill.
- However, to sugar the pill of change it does have an RHS Award of Garden Merit, is hardy through the British Isles and should be available from garden centres and nurseries.
- An increasing number of dating agencies are sweetening the pill by affecting introductions with clients who share a particular interest, but the biggest innovation for the industry has come with the internet.
- In many cases airlines will try to find a passenger who is willing to take a later flight, often sweetening the pill with a free upgrade.

Origin

Late Middle English: ultimately from Latin pilula 'little ball', diminutive of pila; compare with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pille.

In the past physicians would cover bitter pills thinly with gold to make them easier to swallow. This gave rise to the early 17th-century phrase gild the pill, ‘to make an unpleasant or painful necessity more palatable’. As the practice of sugar-coating superseded gilding pills, the more familiar version sugar the pill took over from the end of the 18th century. Pill itself goes back to Latin pilula ‘little ball’ from pila ‘ball’. The Pill as a name for a contraceptive dates from the 1950s. See also pellet

Rhymes

bill, Brazil, brill, Camille, chill, cookchill, dill, distil (US distill), downhill, drill, Edgehill, Estoril, fill, freewill, frill, fulfil (US fulfill), Gill, goodwill, grill, grille, hill, ill, instil, kill, krill, mil, mill, nil, Phil, quadrille, quill, rill, Seville, shill, shrill, sill, skill, spadille, spill, squill, still, stock-still, swill, thill, thrill, till, trill, twill, until, uphill, will

pill²

verb pɪlpɪl

[no object]

(of knitted fabric) form small balls of fluff on its surface.
（在针织物表面）结球，起球
synthetics can pill but otherwise wear fairly well
no matter how carefully you wash them, some sweaters end up pilled and bobbly
Example sentencesExamples
- High lanolin content can prevent pilling, but the high-lanolin yarn garments are usually heavy outer-wear.
- Those tiny little felt guys that I made for Amelia just before she was born have been loved a little and have ended up filthy and terribly pilled.
- When washed, the fleece pilled and changed shape which meant that the garment ‘grew’ as it was worn.
- This new fabric treatment enables the garment to resist shrinking, pilling, fading and wrinkles while remaining breathable.
- The yarn pilled up a lot, and though it was soft it always looked kind of weird on me so I rarely wore it.
- Fabric made with this tandem-spun yarn doesn't pill, since the core fiber - often a high-tenacity polyester that is prone to cause pilling - is almost completely encased in cotton, which doesn't pill.

Origin

1950s: from the noun pill denoting a small ball of fluff, extended sense of pill¹.

pill¹

nounpɪlpil

1A small round mass of solid medicine to be swallowed whole.
药片，药丸；片剂，丸剂
Example sentencesExamples
- The ability to swallow pills and pay for prescribed medication can also affect the outcome of therapy.
- Your doctor may also ask you if you take any medicines such as birth control pills, laxatives or diet pills.
- Need for withdrawal from laxatives, diet pills, or diuretics.
- Laxatives come as syrups, powders, and also as pills, which are swallowed or put inside the anus.
- I've been taking garlic pills, magnesium pills, an aspirin a day and vitamin C.
- If this is not helpful, your doctor may prescribe stronger steroids or antihistamine pills.
- Patients may miss appointments, may not actually swallow the pills, or may deliberately regurgitate the medications.
- Most of us swallow our pills with a glass of juice or a swig of water.
- He takes a cup of water and swallows the handful of pills in one gulp.
- Remember that herbal medicines and vitamin pills can also be dangerous if taken if large doses, so store these out of reach too.
- Many have swallowed the bitter pill and tried again, often with salutiferous effects.
- She had been unable to obtain relief from over-the-counter medications, because she could not swallow pills.
- They may be inhaled or swallowed as a pill or liquid.
- He was a very bright, socially sensitive, and insightful young man whose complaint was that he could not swallow pills or capsules.
- Will we become immune to it and eventually need a whole pill to get the same results?
- The patient also may begin trying to take whole pills, one at a time, during this period rather than crushing them.
- Don't leave medicines or pills lying around where children and toddlers can get at them.
Synonyms
tablet, capsule, caplet, pellet, lozenge, pastille
1. 1.1the pill" or "the Pill A contraceptive pill.
  避孕丸
  she is on the pill
  Example sentencesExamples
  And so in some cases we have to put critically endangered species like this on the pill, on some form of contraception because we actually don't want to breed.
  It's been almost eight years since I was on the pill.
  That occurs mainly in people who have been on the pill for more than 10 years and who smoke cigarettes.
  Some women find this method disconcerting because the period they have each month while on the pill is reassurance that they haven't become pregnant.
  For those of you women who smoke and are not allowed to be on the pill but hate condoms, this seems like a great contraceptive, right?
  If you've used condoms only, for instance, you can ask about going on the pill or another hormonal method for contraceptive backup.
  But if she is on the pill and taking antibiotics, the one will lessen the effect of the other.
  I went on the pill for the first time a couple of months ago, and since then I've been crying a lot, for no apparent reason.
  According to the clever people in St. Andrew's lab in the UK, women on the pill have different ideals of male sexual attractiveness to those who are not taking the pill.
  She was on the pill or at least she had said she was.
  Mr Myers claimed the reason the couple stopped was because she told him she was not on the pill.
  Pregnant women and those on the pill are at the highest risk of developing deep vein thrombosis on long-distance flights.
  This is the largest women's health study ever done and contradicts other research on the pill.
  She has a four year old child, had a termination two years ago, and is on the pill.
  I could always go into Planned Parenthood, not tell them about my pulmonary embolism, and get back on the pill, but I'm not sure that it would be worth it.
  These women faced a 60 percent greater risk of getting pregnant while on the pill.
  I was on the pill as well but we decided to use a condom.
  You can have a contraceptive consultation, so if you are thinking of going on the pill or another form of contraception, you can make an appointment with one of the doctors there.
  Women who were currently on the birth control pill were expected to be less likely than women who were not on the pill to indicate intentions to use condoms with a new partner in the future.
  As well as contraception and other health benefits, there are risks of being on the pill.
2. 1.2informal A tedious or unpleasant person.
  〈北美，非正式〉讨厌的家伙
3. 1.3informal (in some sports) a humorous term for a ball.
  〈非正式，幽默〉（某些运动用的）球，弹

Phrases

a bitter pill (to swallow)

An unpleasant or painful necessity (to accept).
不得不承受的苦事
Example sentencesExamples
- Cotterill admitted that seeing the game snatched from his side's grasp with extra time looming was a bitter pill to swallow.
- Eventually he murmurs ‘It's a bitter pill to swallow.’
- Defeat in this game was a bitter pill to swallow for all concerned, players, mentors and supporters because it should not have happened.
- This is a bitter pill to swallow after we had played so well since the new year, but we will be back.
- Senator Boswell said while the agreement was a bitter pill to swallow, it was important to remember it did not leave the industry worse off.
- ‘It is a bitter pill to swallow but it is necessary to cut back and balance the books,’ he said.
- This one is - and should be - a bitter pill to swallow.
- Of course, if your finances are already squeezed to the breaking point, the rate hike is a bitter pill to swallow - good for you in the long run, but hard to take right now.
- But it is a bitter pill to swallow for all those who have worked to make the colliery profitable in recent years - without the help of government aid.

sugar (or sweeten) the pill

Make an unpleasant or painful necessity more palatable.
不得不承受的苦事
Example sentencesExamples
- An increasing number of dating agencies are sweetening the pill by affecting introductions with clients who share a particular interest, but the biggest innovation for the industry has come with the internet.
- The ‘horrible’ truth may taste ‘bad’ but Fischer, like any funny man worth his salt, sweetens the pill.
- Brown has always said he is an honest guy, but even mild-mannered Donnelly was irked by Brown continuously sugaring the pill.
- As a result, the government took the less politically painful and unprecedented step of delaying the tax rise - sweetening the pill a little.
- He makes no attempt to sweeten the pill by positing an upside to emotional politics or strategies designed to boost self-esteem.
- Indeed, they magnanimously suggest that the road tax be abolished to sugar the pill.
- With no asides and soliloquies, nothing is put in to sweeten the pill.
- In many cases airlines will try to find a passenger who is willing to take a later flight, often sweetening the pill with a free upgrade.
- Opportunities for young people to have practical involvement with history and archaeology, especially the kind that sweetens the pill of prescriptive curriculum schooling, are, I believe, very limited.
- However, to sugar the pill of change it does have an RHS Award of Garden Merit, is hardy through the British Isles and should be available from garden centres and nurseries.

Origin

Late Middle English: ultimately from Latin pilula ‘little ball’, diminutive of pila; compare with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pille.

pill²

verbpilpɪl

[no object]

(of knitted fabric) form small balls of fluff on its surface.
（在针织物表面）结球，起球
synthetics can pill but otherwise wear fairly well
no matter how carefully you wash them, some sweaters end up pilled and bobbly
Example sentencesExamples
- The yarn pilled up a lot, and though it was soft it always looked kind of weird on me so I rarely wore it.
- High lanolin content can prevent pilling, but the high-lanolin yarn garments are usually heavy outer-wear.
- Those tiny little felt guys that I made for Amelia just before she was born have been loved a little and have ended up filthy and terribly pilled.
- Fabric made with this tandem-spun yarn doesn't pill, since the core fiber - often a high-tenacity polyester that is prone to cause pilling - is almost completely encased in cotton, which doesn't pill.
- This new fabric treatment enables the garment to resist shrinking, pilling, fading and wrinkles while remaining breathable.
- When washed, the fleece pilled and changed shape which meant that the garment ‘grew’ as it was worn.

Origin

1950s: from the noun pill denoting a small ball of fluff, extended sense of pill.

词汇	pill
释义	pill¹ noun pɪlpɪl 1A small round mass of solid medicine for swallowing whole. 药片，药丸；片剂，丸剂 an overdose of sleeping pills Example sentencesExamples If this is not helpful, your doctor may prescribe stronger steroids or antihistamine pills. Remember that herbal medicines and vitamin pills can also be dangerous if taken if large doses, so store these out of reach too. Laxatives come as syrups, powders, and also as pills, which are swallowed or put inside the anus. Need for withdrawal from laxatives, diet pills, or diuretics. They may be inhaled or swallowed as a pill or liquid. Most of us swallow our pills with a glass of juice or a swig of water. He was a very bright, socially sensitive, and insightful young man whose complaint was that he could not swallow pills or capsules. Don't leave medicines or pills lying around where children and toddlers can get at them. Many have swallowed the bitter pill and tried again, often with salutiferous effects. He takes a cup of water and swallows the handful of pills in one gulp. The ability to swallow pills and pay for prescribed medication can also affect the outcome of therapy. Patients may miss appointments, may not actually swallow the pills, or may deliberately regurgitate the medications. Will we become immune to it and eventually need a whole pill to get the same results? I've been taking garlic pills, magnesium pills, an aspirin a day and vitamin C. She had been unable to obtain relief from over-the-counter medications, because she could not swallow pills. Your doctor may also ask you if you take any medicines such as birth control pills, laxatives or diet pills. The patient also may begin trying to take whole pills, one at a time, during this period rather than crushing them. Synonyms tablet, capsule, caplet, pellet, lozenge, pastille rare jujube, bolus, troche, pilule 1.1the pill An oral contraceptive in pill form. 避孕丸 is she on the pill? Example sentencesExamples I could always go into Planned Parenthood, not tell them about my pulmonary embolism, and get back on the pill, but I'm not sure that it would be worth it. Mr Myers claimed the reason the couple stopped was because she told him she was not on the pill. She has a four year old child, had a termination two years ago, and is on the pill. For those of you women who smoke and are not allowed to be on the pill but hate condoms, this seems like a great contraceptive, right? She was on the pill or at least she had said she was. Some women find this method disconcerting because the period they have each month while on the pill is reassurance that they haven't become pregnant. Women who were currently on the birth control pill were expected to be less likely than women who were not on the pill to indicate intentions to use condoms with a new partner in the future. You can have a contraceptive consultation, so if you are thinking of going on the pill or another form of contraception, you can make an appointment with one of the doctors there. And so in some cases we have to put critically endangered species like this on the pill, on some form of contraception because we actually don't want to breed. Pregnant women and those on the pill are at the highest risk of developing deep vein thrombosis on long-distance flights. I went on the pill for the first time a couple of months ago, and since then I've been crying a lot, for no apparent reason. As well as contraception and other health benefits, there are risks of being on the pill. This is the largest women's health study ever done and contradicts other research on the pill. It's been almost eight years since I was on the pill. According to the clever people in St. Andrew's lab in the UK, women on the pill have different ideals of male sexual attractiveness to those who are not taking the pill. If you've used condoms only, for instance, you can ask about going on the pill or another hormonal method for contraceptive backup. That occurs mainly in people who have been on the pill for more than 10 years and who smoke cigarettes. These women faced a 60 percent greater risk of getting pregnant while on the pill. I was on the pill as well but we decided to use a condom. But if she is on the pill and taking antibiotics, the one will lessen the effect of the other. 2dated, informal A tedious or unpleasant person. 〈北美，非正式〉讨厌的家伙 3dated, informal (in some sports) a humorous term for a ball. 〈非正式，幽默〉（某些运动用的）球，弹 Phrases a bitter pill (to swallow) An unpleasant or painful necessity (to accept). 不得不承受的苦事 Example sentencesExamples Eventually he murmurs ‘It's a bitter pill to swallow.’ ‘It is a bitter pill to swallow but it is necessary to cut back and balance the books,’ he said. Of course, if your finances are already squeezed to the breaking point, the rate hike is a bitter pill to swallow - good for you in the long run, but hard to take right now. Cotterill admitted that seeing the game snatched from his side's grasp with extra time looming was a bitter pill to swallow. But it is a bitter pill to swallow for all those who have worked to make the colliery profitable in recent years - without the help of government aid. Defeat in this game was a bitter pill to swallow for all concerned, players, mentors and supporters because it should not have happened. Senator Boswell said while the agreement was a bitter pill to swallow, it was important to remember it did not leave the industry worse off. This one is - and should be - a bitter pill to swallow. This is a bitter pill to swallow after we had played so well since the new year, but we will be back. sugar (or sweeten) the pill Make an unpleasant or painful necessity more palatable. 不得不承受的苦事 Example sentencesExamples Indeed, they magnanimously suggest that the road tax be abolished to sugar the pill. He makes no attempt to sweeten the pill by positing an upside to emotional politics or strategies designed to boost self-esteem. As a result, the government took the less politically painful and unprecedented step of delaying the tax rise - sweetening the pill a little. Opportunities for young people to have practical involvement with history and archaeology, especially the kind that sweetens the pill of prescriptive curriculum schooling, are, I believe, very limited. Brown has always said he is an honest guy, but even mild-mannered Donnelly was irked by Brown continuously sugaring the pill. With no asides and soliloquies, nothing is put in to sweeten the pill. The ‘horrible’ truth may taste ‘bad’ but Fischer, like any funny man worth his salt, sweetens the pill. However, to sugar the pill of change it does have an RHS Award of Garden Merit, is hardy through the British Isles and should be available from garden centres and nurseries. An increasing number of dating agencies are sweetening the pill by affecting introductions with clients who share a particular interest, but the biggest innovation for the industry has come with the internet. In many cases airlines will try to find a passenger who is willing to take a later flight, often sweetening the pill with a free upgrade. Origin Late Middle English: ultimately from Latin pilula 'little ball', diminutive of pila; compare with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pille. In the past physicians would cover bitter pills thinly with gold to make them easier to swallow. This gave rise to the early 17th-century phrase gild the pill, ‘to make an unpleasant or painful necessity more palatable’. As the practice of sugar-coating superseded gilding pills, the more familiar version sugar the pill took over from the end of the 18th century. Pill itself goes back to Latin pilula ‘little ball’ from pila ‘ball’. The Pill as a name for a contraceptive dates from the 1950s. See also pellet Rhymes bill, Brazil, brill, Camille, chill, cookchill, dill, distil (US distill), downhill, drill, Edgehill, Estoril, fill, freewill, frill, fulfil (US fulfill), Gill, goodwill, grill, grille, hill, ill, instil, kill, krill, mil, mill, nil, Phil, quadrille, quill, rill, Seville, shill, shrill, sill, skill, spadille, spill, squill, still, stock-still, swill, thill, thrill, till, trill, twill, until, uphill, will pill² verb pɪlpɪl [no object] (of knitted fabric) form small balls of fluff on its surface. （在针织物表面）结球，起球 synthetics can pill but otherwise wear fairly well no matter how carefully you wash them, some sweaters end up pilled and bobbly Example sentencesExamples High lanolin content can prevent pilling, but the high-lanolin yarn garments are usually heavy outer-wear. Those tiny little felt guys that I made for Amelia just before she was born have been loved a little and have ended up filthy and terribly pilled. When washed, the fleece pilled and changed shape which meant that the garment ‘grew’ as it was worn. This new fabric treatment enables the garment to resist shrinking, pilling, fading and wrinkles while remaining breathable. The yarn pilled up a lot, and though it was soft it always looked kind of weird on me so I rarely wore it. Fabric made with this tandem-spun yarn doesn't pill, since the core fiber - often a high-tenacity polyester that is prone to cause pilling - is almost completely encased in cotton, which doesn't pill. Origin 1950s: from the noun pill denoting a small ball of fluff, extended sense of pill¹. noun.1 phr. verb.1 pill¹ nounpɪlpil 1A small round mass of solid medicine to be swallowed whole. 药片，药丸；片剂，丸剂 Example sentencesExamples The ability to swallow pills and pay for prescribed medication can also affect the outcome of therapy. Your doctor may also ask you if you take any medicines such as birth control pills, laxatives or diet pills. Need for withdrawal from laxatives, diet pills, or diuretics. Laxatives come as syrups, powders, and also as pills, which are swallowed or put inside the anus. I've been taking garlic pills, magnesium pills, an aspirin a day and vitamin C. If this is not helpful, your doctor may prescribe stronger steroids or antihistamine pills. Patients may miss appointments, may not actually swallow the pills, or may deliberately regurgitate the medications. Most of us swallow our pills with a glass of juice or a swig of water. He takes a cup of water and swallows the handful of pills in one gulp. Remember that herbal medicines and vitamin pills can also be dangerous if taken if large doses, so store these out of reach too. Many have swallowed the bitter pill and tried again, often with salutiferous effects. She had been unable to obtain relief from over-the-counter medications, because she could not swallow pills. They may be inhaled or swallowed as a pill or liquid. He was a very bright, socially sensitive, and insightful young man whose complaint was that he could not swallow pills or capsules. Will we become immune to it and eventually need a whole pill to get the same results? The patient also may begin trying to take whole pills, one at a time, during this period rather than crushing them. Don't leave medicines or pills lying around where children and toddlers can get at them. Synonyms tablet, capsule, caplet, pellet, lozenge, pastille 1.1the pill" or "the Pill A contraceptive pill. 避孕丸 she is on the pill Example sentencesExamples And so in some cases we have to put critically endangered species like this on the pill, on some form of contraception because we actually don't want to breed. It's been almost eight years since I was on the pill. That occurs mainly in people who have been on the pill for more than 10 years and who smoke cigarettes. Some women find this method disconcerting because the period they have each month while on the pill is reassurance that they haven't become pregnant. For those of you women who smoke and are not allowed to be on the pill but hate condoms, this seems like a great contraceptive, right? If you've used condoms only, for instance, you can ask about going on the pill or another hormonal method for contraceptive backup. But if she is on the pill and taking antibiotics, the one will lessen the effect of the other. I went on the pill for the first time a couple of months ago, and since then I've been crying a lot, for no apparent reason. According to the clever people in St. Andrew's lab in the UK, women on the pill have different ideals of male sexual attractiveness to those who are not taking the pill. She was on the pill or at least she had said she was. Mr Myers claimed the reason the couple stopped was because she told him she was not on the pill. Pregnant women and those on the pill are at the highest risk of developing deep vein thrombosis on long-distance flights. This is the largest women's health study ever done and contradicts other research on the pill. She has a four year old child, had a termination two years ago, and is on the pill. I could always go into Planned Parenthood, not tell them about my pulmonary embolism, and get back on the pill, but I'm not sure that it would be worth it. These women faced a 60 percent greater risk of getting pregnant while on the pill. I was on the pill as well but we decided to use a condom. You can have a contraceptive consultation, so if you are thinking of going on the pill or another form of contraception, you can make an appointment with one of the doctors there. Women who were currently on the birth control pill were expected to be less likely than women who were not on the pill to indicate intentions to use condoms with a new partner in the future. As well as contraception and other health benefits, there are risks of being on the pill. 1.2informal A tedious or unpleasant person. 〈北美，非正式〉讨厌的家伙 1.3informal (in some sports) a humorous term for a ball. 〈非正式，幽默〉（某些运动用的）球，弹 Phrases a bitter pill (to swallow) An unpleasant or painful necessity (to accept). 不得不承受的苦事 Example sentencesExamples Cotterill admitted that seeing the game snatched from his side's grasp with extra time looming was a bitter pill to swallow. Eventually he murmurs ‘It's a bitter pill to swallow.’ Defeat in this game was a bitter pill to swallow for all concerned, players, mentors and supporters because it should not have happened. This is a bitter pill to swallow after we had played so well since the new year, but we will be back. Senator Boswell said while the agreement was a bitter pill to swallow, it was important to remember it did not leave the industry worse off. ‘It is a bitter pill to swallow but it is necessary to cut back and balance the books,’ he said. This one is - and should be - a bitter pill to swallow. Of course, if your finances are already squeezed to the breaking point, the rate hike is a bitter pill to swallow - good for you in the long run, but hard to take right now. But it is a bitter pill to swallow for all those who have worked to make the colliery profitable in recent years - without the help of government aid. sugar (or sweeten) the pill Make an unpleasant or painful necessity more palatable. 不得不承受的苦事 Example sentencesExamples An increasing number of dating agencies are sweetening the pill by affecting introductions with clients who share a particular interest, but the biggest innovation for the industry has come with the internet. The ‘horrible’ truth may taste ‘bad’ but Fischer, like any funny man worth his salt, sweetens the pill. Brown has always said he is an honest guy, but even mild-mannered Donnelly was irked by Brown continuously sugaring the pill. As a result, the government took the less politically painful and unprecedented step of delaying the tax rise - sweetening the pill a little. He makes no attempt to sweeten the pill by positing an upside to emotional politics or strategies designed to boost self-esteem. Indeed, they magnanimously suggest that the road tax be abolished to sugar the pill. With no asides and soliloquies, nothing is put in to sweeten the pill. In many cases airlines will try to find a passenger who is willing to take a later flight, often sweetening the pill with a free upgrade. Opportunities for young people to have practical involvement with history and archaeology, especially the kind that sweetens the pill of prescriptive curriculum schooling, are, I believe, very limited. However, to sugar the pill of change it does have an RHS Award of Garden Merit, is hardy through the British Isles and should be available from garden centres and nurseries. Origin Late Middle English: ultimately from Latin pilula ‘little ball’, diminutive of pila; compare with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pille. pill² verbpilpɪl [no object] (of knitted fabric) form small balls of fluff on its surface. （在针织物表面）结球，起球 synthetics can pill but otherwise wear fairly well no matter how carefully you wash them, some sweaters end up pilled and bobbly Example sentencesExamples The yarn pilled up a lot, and though it was soft it always looked kind of weird on me so I rarely wore it. High lanolin content can prevent pilling, but the high-lanolin yarn garments are usually heavy outer-wear. Those tiny little felt guys that I made for Amelia just before she was born have been loved a little and have ended up filthy and terribly pilled. Fabric made with this tandem-spun yarn doesn't pill, since the core fiber - often a high-tenacity polyester that is prone to cause pilling - is almost completely encased in cotton, which doesn't pill. This new fabric treatment enables the garment to resist shrinking, pilling, fading and wrinkles while remaining breathable. When washed, the fleece pilled and changed shape which meant that the garment ‘grew’ as it was worn. Origin 1950s: from the noun pill denoting a small ball of fluff, extended sense of pill. noun.1 phr. verb.1
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