Bromide is a drug which used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset.
例句
...a dose of bromide.一劑溴化鉀鎮靜劑
N-COUNT
老套的安慰話；陳詞濫調
A bromide is a comment which is intended to calm someone down when they are angry, but which has been expressed so often that it has become boring and meaningless.
例句
The meeting produced the usual bromides about macroeconomic policy, third-world debt and the environment.會議上提出的還是那些慣常討論的老套話題——宏觀經濟政策、第三世界債務和環境問題。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; used as a sedative
2. a trite or obvious remark
3. a sedative in the form of sodium or potassium bromide