medicine
n
1 [U] (art and science of the) prevention and cure of disease, esp by drugs, diet, etc, but sometimes including surgery also 醫術; 醫學
study medicine at the university 在大學學醫
practise medicine 行醫
a Doctor of Medicine 醫學博士
ethical problems in medicine 醫學中的道德問題.
2 [C, U] (type of) substance, esp one taken through the mouth, used in curing disease 藥; (尤指)內服藥
Has nurse given you your medicine? 護士給你服過藥了嗎?
Don't take too much medicine. 藥不要吃得太多.
cough medicine(s) 咳嗽藥.
3 (idm 習語) some, a little, a taste, etc of one's own `medicine the same bad treatment one has given to others 受到報應
The smaller boys badly wanted to give the bully a dose of his own medicine. 那些小男孩兒巴不得讓那欺負人的壞蛋也嘗點苦頭. take one's `medicine (like a `man) (esp joc 尤作戲謔語) submit to punishment, sth unpleasant, etc (without complaining) 認罰, 忍受不快的事物(無怨言)
He really hates shopping but he goes anyway, and takes his medicine like a man. 他實在討厭買東西, 但還是硬著頭皮去了.