11.15 panacea

英英：something that people think will make everything better and solve all their problems

例句：There is no panacea for America's immigrant problems.

Panacea意为可以解决一切问题的了灵丹妙药，可替换a perfect solution,这个词需注意三点：

1）  是可数名词，但常用单数

2）  后常接表示问题的名词，比如problems/ills

3）  后面常跟no/not/never 这样的否定词常用

句型1：There is no panacea for **problems. X问题没有完美的解决方案。比如美国的移民问题、日本的人口问题、中国的环境问题等

There is no panacea for America's immigrant problems.

There is no panacea for Japan's population problems.

There is no panacea for China's environment problems.

句型2：X（某个解决方案）, though not a universal panacea for the problems of Y, would be a reform/change/step in the right direction.

当我们想表示“某个解决方案虽然不够完美，但是也能奏效”时，就可以直接套用上面这个句型。

比如一篇讨论全球气候变化应对方案的文章中，也出现了 panacea：

Taxes on carbon, though not a universal panacea for the problems of climate change, would be a reform in the right direction, too.

比如，想要表达“虽然鼓励乘坐公共交通出行并不能解决全部的交通拥堵问题，但政府仍旧应该鼓励”，就可以写成：

Encouraging residents to use more public transportation, though not a universal panacea for the problem of traffic jam, would be a change/step in the right direction.

《经济学人》中经常可以看到 “panacea”。因为《经济学人》不仅仅是报道新闻，它还会深入分析问题，并且提出解决方案。比如在关于非洲科技创新的文章中，就出现了 panacea：

Yet there is also reason to hope that even if technology is not a panacea, it can still help reduce some of the costs and frictions of doing business in Africa.

1）翻译下面的句子：

很多 CEO 希望能够找到解决企业所有问题的万能药。

Many CEOs wants to find a panacea for all the problems in their firms.

（参考翻译：Many CEOs hope they can find the panacea for all the company's problems. 或者 Many CEOs wish they could find the panacea for all corporate ills.

1.      企业问题 company’s problem更简洁，或corporate ills

2.      用Wish could句型

场景：促销活动不能马上改变DS品牌车销售差的情况，但至少有一定的作用。

Sales promotion, though not a panacea for poor sales volume of DS cars, would still be a step in the right direction.