| 词汇 | poisoned |
| 释义 | poisoned past simple and past participle ofpoison poison verb[ T ] uk /ˈpɔɪ.zən/ us /ˈpɔɪ.zən/ poisonverb[T] (ADD SUBSTANCE)B2 to kill a person or animal or to make them very ill by giving them poison: 毒杀，毒害，使中毒 Four members of the family had been poisoned, but not fatally.这家中有四口人被人投毒，但未致命。 B2 to put poison in someone's food or drink: 在…里放毒，在…里下毒 He said that someone had poisoned his coffee.他说有人在他咖啡里下了毒。 B2 to add dangerous chemicals or other harmful substances to something such as water or air: 使（水、空气等）受污染 The chemical leak had poisoned the water supply.化学品的泄漏污染了供水。 Poisoning and allergy allergen allergenic allergic anaphylactic anaphylactic shock anaphylaxis animatedly envenomation fly agaric hypersensitivity hypoallergenic intolerance intolerant poisoning toxicity toxicologist toxicology venom venomous Warfarin You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Murder & attempted murder Environmental issues poisonverb[T] (SPOIL)to spoil a friendship or another situation, by making it very unpleasant: 破坏，伤害（友谊等） The long dispute has poisoned relations between the two countries.长期的纠纷损害了两国关系。 to spoil something spoilDon't spoil the movie by telling me what happens! ruinI put too much salt in the sauce and ruined it. defaceMany of the library books had been defaced. disfigureHer face was disfigured by the scar. sourOur friendship soured after the argument, and we just drifted apart. poisonThe long dispute has poisoned relations between the two countries. Damaging and spoiling adulterant adulterate adulterated adulteration applecart butcher degrade drive a wedge between someoneidiom dry rot eat eat away at something erode foul put something out of jointidiom queer rain on someone's paradeidiom rampage ravage seismic wreck Idiompoison someone's mind Examples of poisonedpoisoned In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. What little 'trickle-down' there was trickled mainly into provincial capitals, and local people themselves were often left with little but denuded hillsides and poisoned rivers. Is 'masculinist' a term so poisoned that no respectable feminist will touch it? Deconstructing the gift, he demonstrated its radical impossibility: a true, pure and altruistic gift does not and cannot exist; gifts are always poisoned. We cannot be sure, but many people believe, to this day, that he was poisoned. There together with a few other fellows he poisoned a rich lady with the intent to rob her. He was instructed to assume charge immediately, and report back, but he clearly regarded this ostensible promotion as a poisoned chalice. It is unlikely that texts with such uncompromising standards for women would have been silent if wives frequently poisoned their husbands. Therefore, if a wife survived her husband, it was reasonable to assume that she had poisoned him. One report claimed that someone had taken some longicorn beetles from the mountains and cast them into the inlet, which poisoned the water. Nowhere in these labyrinthine catalogues of crime and punishment does one see references to women who poisoned their husbands. Another explanation that may apply in some cases is that an unpopular government can plan to leave a poisoned fiscal chalice. First, it is a retribution for the presumed sins of the widow : if her husband was dead she must have poisoned him. Shepherds may have also been poisoned by the chemicals used in treating various sheep diseases. Not surprisingly, women who poisoned their husbands gained instant notoriety. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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