pill

1. N-COUNT Pills are small solid round masses of medicine or vitamins that you swallow without chewing. 葯丸

Why do I have to take all these pills?

我爲(wèi)什麼非得全部喫了這些葯丸？

2. N-SING If a woman is on the pill, she takes a special pill that prevents her from becoming pregnant. 避孕葯

She had been on the pill for three years. 她曾服了3年的避孕葯。

3. V to give pills to 開葯給

4. V

5. V to peel or skin (something) 剝(或削)皮[archaic, DIALECT]

6. PHRASE If a person or group has to accept a failure or an unpleasant piece of news, you can say that it was a bitter pill or a bitter pill to swallow. 苦果

You're too old to be given a job. That's a bitter pill to swallow. 你年齡太大，不能給你工作了。那樣的事情是吞苦果。

7. PHRASE If someone does something to sweeten the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable. 讓壞消息或措施變得容易接受

A few words of praise help to sweeten the pill of criticism. 幾句贊賞的話有助於使批評更容易被接受。