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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- efficacious [,εfɪ'keɪʃəs]
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adj
capable of or successful in producing an intended result; effective as a means, remedy, etc
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adj
[Etymology]
C16: from Latin effic
a x powerful, efficient, from efficere to achieve; seeeffect
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1.
adj
capable of or successful in producing an intended result; effective as a means, remedy, etc
Examples
- a efficacious drug
- 有效能的药 → efficacious
- 此药功效非常显著。
- This medicine is most efficacious. → 功效
- 这种药非常灵验。
- This medicine is highly efficacious. → 灵验
- 这药很有效力。
- The medicine is efficacious. → 效力
- 他从庙里请了一个护符, 据说很灵的。
- He got a phylactery from the temple, which was said to be very efficacious. → 护符
- 祖传的医方据说对于治疗肾虚效果很好。
- The ancestral prescription is said to be efficacious against renal weakness. → 医方
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