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单词 miasma
释义
miasmami‧as‧ma /miˈæzmə, maɪ-/ noun [singular] literary Word Origin
WORD ORIGINmiasma
Origin:
1600-1700 Greek ‘making dirty’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • An acrid miasma came from the sewage plant.
  • You feel the devastation of the war like a miasma over the battlefield.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A lurid miasma dazed his vision.
  • Acrid miasmas coiled from ventilation ducts and sewage flooded avenues.
  • But here the clouds converge and mist falls and general miasma overtakes the public brain.
  • I went to wash up as the table edge trembled to a familiar sick-to-the-gut miasma of nothingness.
  • Suspicion rose like a miasma from which it was impossible ever to take a breath.
  • The two of them now resembled a superstitious swamp devil, humming, hovering, and plowing through the miasma.
1dirty air or a thick unpleasant mist that smells bad:  He looked up at me through a miasma of cigarette smoke. A foul miasma lay over the town.2an evil influence or feeling that seems to surround a person or placemiasma of The miasma of defeat hung over them.
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