My dissertation, like most in recent years, was a collection of loosely related papers bound together for the sole purpose of getting a degree. It bore the soporific title, "Essays on Consumption.(但我的博士論文和許多近年來的文章一樣，都是一堆文章拼拼湊湊的結果，權想要拿個學位罷了，題目也沒什么新意，叫作《論消費》。)

The election campaign was soporific but the results are startling.(競選活動令人昏昏欲睡，但結果卻令人吃驚。)

In Lavengro (or is it Romany Rye?) there is an impossible character, a victim of insomnia, who finds that a volume of Wordsworth's poems is the only sure soporific; but that was Borrow s malice.(在《拉文格羅》（或者是《吉卜賽男人》）一書中有一個無可救藥的人，患有失眠癥，他發現華爾華斯的一卷詩集是惟一有效的催眠劑，但那只不過是伯羅的惡作劇而已。)

Those who insisted on worshiping at the altar of soporific right thinking-those who thought that conflict had become obsolete-were swept away in less than 20 years.(那些堅持在催眠般權利思想的祭壇邊祈禱的人，那些認為沖突已經成為過去的人——在不到20年的時間里被一掃而光。)

His voice had an almost soporific effect.(他的聲音具有催眠作用。)

The THIRD and final debate, which took place at Hofstra University, New York, on Wednesday October 15th was a firecracker of a show, as riveting as the two previous debates were soporific.(在10月15日周三的紐約Hofstra大學內舉行的，第三次并且也是最后一次的辯論落下了帷幕。一場和前兩場同樣精彩的辯論結束了。)

After his soporific speech for an hour, the speaker received no applause from the audience.(在他一個小時催眠般的演講后，演講者沒有收到觀眾任何掌聲。)

Providence, out of pity for mankind, has instilled a soporific charm into all tedious things.(老天爺悲憫世人，他在一切沉悶的東西上都施加了催眠般的魔力。)

I often have to take soporific before I go to bed.(我常在睡前不得不服安眠藥。)

But there have always been what she calls "candy alarmists," who warned that candy was too stimulating, too soporific, poisoned, or otherwise hazardous.(但世上從不缺少她所謂的“糖果杞人憂天者”，他們警告大家糖果容易令人亢奮、有催眠作用、有毒，總之危害重重。)

Those who tried to listen found the soporific influence irresistible.