hypnotic
adj
1 of or producing hypnosis or a similar condition 催眠(术)的; 有催眠或类似催眠作用的
be in a hypnotic trance 在受催眠状态中.
2 (of a drug) producing sleep (指药物)安眠的. hypnotic, n hypnotic drug or influence 催眠药物或催眠作用; 安眠药或安眠效果.
Shortly after this the famous H. M. S. Challenger expedition established the study of the sea-floor as a subject worthy of the most qualified physicists and geologists.