Miasma



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 瘴气, 不?档幕肪郴蛴跋?
• ［英］ n. 瘴气, 不?档幕肪郴蛴跋?unhealthy mist rising from the ground; unhealthy environment or influence)
• ［例］ a miasma of tobacco smoke

Webster Collegiate

noun (plural -mas; also miasmata)

• Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, defilement, from miainein to pollute
• Date: 1665
• 1. a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease; also a heavy vaporous emanation or atmosphere <a miasma of tobacco smoke>
• 2. an influence or atmosphere that tends to deplete or corrupt <freed from the miasma of poverty — Sir Arthur Bryant>; also an atmosphere that obscures ; fog <retreated into an asexual mental miasma — Times Literary Supplement>
• ? miasmal adjective
• ? miasmatic adjective
• ? miasmic adjective
• ? miasmically adverb

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