| 释义 |
miasmal, a.|maɪˈæzməl|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Containing miasmatic effluvia or germs.
1853Fraser's Mag. XLVIII. 267 You wittingly expose your innocent wife To this miasmal atmosphere of death. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vii. 300 We respond with our miasmal fog. 1895R. F. Horton Teaching of Jesus ii. 175 Like a sunbeam on some forlorn and miasmal place, sterilising the germs of evil. 1919T. S. Eliot Hippopotamus in Poems, The True Church remains below Wrapt in the old miasmal mist. |