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

• From cold turkey to hypnosis, cigarette smokers have tried various methods to help kick the smoking habit.
  不管是突然停止抽烟还是催眠戒烟，吸烟者已经尝试过各种各样的办法戒烟。
• Stopping something cold turkey is hard, so its best to replace the unwanted habit with something positive.
  戒掉坏习惯很难，所以最好用好习惯代替不想要的习惯。
• 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。）
• EXAMPLE: Last month I stopped smoking cold turkey, which was the only way I knew I could succeed.
  上个月，我断然戒烟，这是我所知道的能成功的唯一方法。
• In the summer between tenth and eleventh grade I went cold turkey and stopped eating junk food.
  在高一和高二之间的那年夏天我用冷火鸡法，停止食用垃圾食品。
• Are you going to try to stop smoking cold turkey?
  你打算努力去彻底戒烟吗？
• South African zoo wants a chimpanzee to quit smoking cold turkey.
  南非一家动物园要一只黑猩猩立即戒菸。
• 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。
• 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。
• G.M. has stated it will go cold turkey on incentives, and it has.
  通用汽车公司曾宣布将要断然停止奖励办法，现在果然停了。