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- tending to induce drowsiness or sleep催眠的：
the motion of the train had a somewhat soporific effect.
火车的行驶起了一定的催眠作用。
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- sleepy or drowsy困倦的, 昏昏欲睡的：
some medicine made her soporific.
某些药使她昏昏欲睡。
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- tediously boring or monotonous枯燥得令人厌烦的, 单调乏味的：
a libel trial is in large parts intensely soporific.
诽谤案的审讯大部分都非常沉闷单调。
- drug or other agent of this kind催眠药; 使人昏睡的东西。
派生词
soporifically
adverb词源
mid 17th cent.: from Latin sopor 'sleep' + -IFIC.