2N-COUNT (使人忽视重要事情的)麻醉品,慰藉物 If you call something an opiate, you disapprove of it because it makes people think less or spend less time on important activities. (使人忽视重要事情的)麻醉品,慰藉物 [disapproval]
...the opiate of mass entertainment.
起到麻痹作用的大众娱乐
It was Karl Marx who said, 'Religion is the opiate of the people'.