cold turkey

英 [ˌkəʊld ˈtɜːki]

美 [ˌkoʊld ˈtɜːrki]

n.  (吸毒成瘾者)突然戒毒时的痛苦; (治疗吸毒成瘾者的)突然戒毒方法

牛津词典

noun

• （吸毒成瘾者）突然戒毒时的痛苦；（治疗吸毒成瘾者的）突然戒毒方法
  the unpleasant state that drug addicts experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug; a way of treating drug addicts that makes them experience this state

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT (吸毒成瘾者)突然戒毒时的不适;戒毒反应
  Cold turkeyis the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
  1. The quickest way to get her off the drug was to let her go cold turkey.
     要使她摆脱毒品，最快的方法是让她彻底戒毒。

英英释义

noun

• complete and abrupt withdrawal of all addictive drugs or anything else on which you have become dependent
  1. he quit smoking cold turkey
  2. she quit her job cold turkey
• a blunt expression of views
  1. I told him cold turkey

双语例句

• The quickest way to get her off the drug was to let her go cold turkey.
  要使她摆脱毒品，最快的方法是让她彻底戒毒。
• Everyone has their own way of kicking bad habits, and you can either choose to go cold turkey or ease off it slowly.
  每个人都有戒掉坏习惯的方法，你可以痛定思痛下决心快速戒掉，也可以慢慢除去坏习惯。
• I've been trying to quit smoking for awhile now, but going cold turkey is very difficult.
  我试图在一段时间里戒烟，但是突然戒掉是很困难的。
• He went through cold turkey to cure his heroin addiction.
  他通过完全戒毒疗法来治疗他的吸海洛因瘾。
• Then one day, I decided to quit cold turkey after trying everything else.
  在试过其它各种戒烟方法后，有一天我决定要断然戒烟。
• He quit smoking a week ago. He tells everyone that he went cold turkey for me.
  （他一星期前戒烟了。他见人就说他突然戒烟是为了我。）
• I feel able to admit this, since over the course of my holiday I was able to go through cold turkey, conquer the addiction, and face the world clean.
  我觉得现在我能够承认这件事了，因为在休假期间，我能够遵守突然戒除法、战胜咖啡瘾，然后清白地面对世界。
• Manuscript submitted, I went cold turkey on holiday, knowing that the headache and sluggishness of mind would be both less painful and less important while wandering around the Welsh coast.
  在交稿后，我在度假时采用了突然戒除法，因为我明白，当我在威尔士海岸漫步时，头疼和精神萎靡的痛苦程度要轻得多。
• But the day a good friend of mine died of lung cancer, I decided to go cold turkey and never light up another cigarette.
  后来我一个要好朋友因为肺癌而死了。就在他去世的当天，我下定决心戒烟，从此以后我再也没有抽过一支烟。
• The millionaire talked cold turkey to his extravagant nephew, hinting that he might be disinherited.
  那百万富翁对他挥霍无度的侄儿晓以利害，并暗示其继承权可能被剥夺。